Shauraseni language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I posted this link, you should have read it to understand why Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi sounds so similar because both of them originated out of Shauraseni, ancestor of both Punjabi and Hindi/Urdu.
It didn't prove any contradiction, I said Urdu is from UP and Punjabi is from Punjab. Many of your Pakistanis comes with theory about nativity of Urdu to Punjab without having slight knowledge of history of North Indian languages and dialects. I have heard some poem of medieval Punjabi.
When it comes to linugual, historical, and cultural matters, I do not take Wikipedia as trustworthy. There is too much motivation to edit articles according to one's bias.
In any case students in Pakistan read a bit of history of Urdu's development. Some (only some) people link Punjabi and Urdu in direct relation of evolution, but that is not the mainstream view. You probably did not know what to make of it when you came across it and decided that this is how Pakistanis view things.
Languages which evolved over centuries do not necessarily follow regional borders. Simply saying that Urdu is from UP would be incorrect. Urdu evolved not from just one place. The earliest major poet was Wali Daccani. As you may be able to tell, he belonged to Deccan, probably today's Madhya Pradesh. That ought to show you the futility of ascribing your parochial view onto a sub-continental phenomenon.
Anyone who hears the recitation of Garanth Sahib, hears medieval Punjabi poems. That is not remarkable in itself.
Pakistanis, by the virtue of knowing the Urdu script and the source of its components from Arabic and Farsi can tell a lot. One can guess the source of most words of Urdu just by looking at the spelling. One can tell apart Arabic (eg. Ishq, Muhabbat, Halva), Farsi (Panjab, Pa), Sanskrit-derived (Chhoro, Ata, Ghoom) words. All this information is lost on the people who can not read the script. You probably have very little idea about the source of many common 'Hindi' words.
Yes, Urdu and Hindi are very much related. Both are wonderful languages, but with a lot of socio-political baggage. Urdu vs Hindi debates hark back to 1930s and this thread basically reflects that.
Pakistanis who want to look down on Hindi should know that both Urdu and Hindi are sister languages with both being categorized as belonging to Indo-European family of languages. A simple look at grammatical constructs would confirm this relation.