Again, you have totally missed the point of my argument. I am not arguing for the similarities or differences. I have already said earlier that the basis for them, is the Hindustani language, you have completely missed my point.
And no, the word Khuda as well as Allah is used, I don't know where you have gotten that from. This topic has got more to do with the semantics of language, more than anything else and is unrelated to this.
Khariboli is the name used for Hindustani language, some 300 years ago, written in the Perso-Arabic script with Persian, Arabic and Turkish words being used for higher vocabulary. Look up the poetry of Ghalib and Mir Taqi Mir for this.
I don't think a long-term effort to try to purge Urdu of whatever influences that you think were, done in Zia's era. Read some Urdu literature from the 40s, of Patras Bokhari or Altaf Hussain Hali and you'll know what I mean. Not a lot (if any) differences.
Pure Urdu and Pure Hindi both are taught at schools and are used in the media, both written and electronic, and also in literature but yes, the casual form is Hindustani, which I have noted above as well.
The word for moon in Vedic Sanskrit, atleast, is māsa not chand. And yes, the word Jeeway has evolved out of the Vedic Sanskrit word jīva, and almost the exact same word is found in Avestani Persian, as zīva. Both words have evolved out of a single Proto-Indo-Iranian word, gʷih₃wós (jwihos). Remember, Old Vedic Sanskrit and Old Avestani Persian used to be one language, Proto-Indo-Iranian until 2000 BC. This is why these words, (jind and zind) are quite often interchangeable. They belong to the same Indo-Iranian language family. You can compare the words of Proto-Indo-Iranian here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_language
And coming to the Hindi-Urdu part. I have explained this countless times above, and there is little point in repeating the same thing over and over again to clueless people. From the wikipedia article on the Hindi-Urdu controversy:
'A Persianized variant of Hindi and Urdu, began to take shape during the Delhi Sultanate(1206–1526 AD) and Mughal Empire (1526–1858 AD) in South Asia
Urdu, along with English became the first official language of British India in 1850...Although the need to have a language for Hindus developed post 1850,
the irrevocable birth of Hindi language took place in 1880...Hindi and Urdu started to diverge linguistically, with Hindi drawing on Sanskrit as the primary source for formal and academic vocabulary, often with a
conscious attempt to purge the language of Persian-derived equivalents.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi–Urdu_controversy
Honestly, you accusing me of 'ridiculing' Sanskrit is rather hilarious. Why would I do that? Merely saying that a constructed language, only a litte more than a hundred years old, which was concsiously purged of certain influences and replaced with others will sound unnatural, isnt ridicule. That is because it is the very definition of unnatural: not naturally allowed to grow over a period of more than eight hundred years unlike Urdu. I suggest you pick up a dictionary.
I am sure even the most hardcore of English nationalists would agree with me that purging English of Greek/Latin/French words, replacing them with Old Germanic ones and using an Old Germanic script to write them unlike the 'foreign' Italian Latin script that we currently write in would be unnatural.
Again, I'll say this. A Hindustani language relying on Old Sanskrit for its higher vocabulary, written in Devangairi script, prior to the 19th century isnt found. A Hindustani language using Persian, Arabic and Turkish for it's higher vocabulary, using the Perso-Arabic script has had literature dating to almost eight hundred years ago. Thats the difference between Urdu and Hindi.
Your attempt to ridicule the other thread of Aitzaz Ahsan's book is rather pathetic. I based my arguments on historic facts, statistics, studies etc. and you are free to tell me if I have stated anything factually wrong there, in a level-headed and rational way. Take this to that thread if you want, and it's really irrelevant bringing that up here. I don't care whether you call it a 'narrative' or whatever since I have come to expect such irrational and spiteful reactions from your lot regarding this subject.
