DRaisinHerald
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It is infact Urdu...which is a mixture of Hindi(the spoken language in the region), farsi and other Turkish and Persian languages..which the invaders brought with
Still debating on Hindi?
Urdu/Hindi comes from Khariboli, a language of Delhi spoken around the Delhi Sultanate Era. They adopted it, and it was mainly spoken by the army (as the courts spoke Farsi). They started incorporating alot of Farsi and Arabic into it; and eventually as the shift from Delhi Sultanate to Mughal empire happened, the locals increasingly started to call it 'Rekhta' and Zaban e Ordu ('Mixed' and 'language of the army'). Urdu eventually developed to a further extent under the Mughals and spread to various parts of the Subcontinent, mainly spoken by Muslims and also Hindus.
After the British came, the abolished Farsi and enforced Urdu upon the local population, which by this time also started to call this language 'Hindi' and 'Hindustani'. It was written in 2 alphabets as well by this time.
After the partitioned happened, India adopted 'Hindi' (and finalised the split of Urdu-Hindu language) and Pakistan adopted 'Urdu'.
These languages were still pretty similar during the early days of India and Pakistan. Indian gov. however started to add more Sanskrit derived vocabulary and enforced that in schools. This was for 2 reasons:try to get rid of as much as 'foreignness' from it, and to make is similar to other languages being spoken in India (they were a lot 'purer' and closer to S.skrit).
Anyway, read around this topic a bit, especially the role it played during the partition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi%E2%80%93Urdu_controversy
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Read the 'Sanskritization' bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindi#Sanskritization
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Man.. you guys are rewriting history with every post of yours
It's either me re-writing history, the historians or you lot. And I'm pretty sure the latter is true
Go read up on your own language before shooting bullets made of Crap cultivated in Bharti farms.