The irony with Hindi/Urdu is that both nations(or people of the nations) made it an issue of National pride. India Sanskrit-ized it, Pakistan Persian-ized and

The irony with Hindi/Urdu is that both nations(or people of the nations) made it an issue of National pride. India Sanskrit-ized it, Pakistan Persian-ized and Arab-ized it. Otherwise both were basically the same languages with different scripts.