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    The HindiUrdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen...
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    known as Hindi (which is greatly influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (deeply influenced by Persian and Arabic). Thus, it is also called HindiUrdu. Colloquial...
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    colonial period that advocated a distinction between Urdu and Hindi, leading to the HindiUrdu controversy. According to 2022 estimates by Ethnologue and The...
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  • HindiUrdu (Devanagari: हिन्दी-उर्दू, Nastaliq: ہندی-اردو) (also known as Hindustani) is the lingua franca of modern-day Northern India and Pakistan (together...
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  • true to their faith and creeds. As further evidence, he observes that the Urdu sources of the pre rebellion and post-rebellion periods usually refer to...
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    influenced the All India Muslim League and the Pakistan movement. The Hindi-Urdu controversy arose in 1867 when the British government prepared to accept the...
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    referred to as the "HindiUrdu Belt" or "Hindustani Belt". Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan dialect continuum that lies within the cultural Hindi Belt in the northern...
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  • northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language...
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    Modern Standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with Urdu, the national and official language of Pakistan. Both are standard registers of the Hindustani...
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  • Old Hindi, or Khariboli was the earliest stage of the Hindustani language, and so the ancestor of today's Modern Standard Hindi and Standard Urdu registers...
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  • as a Muslim-dominated, anti-Hindu industry which favours the use of Urdu over Hindi. Bollywood has historically had many Muslims involved in the production...
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    registers: Hindi and Urdu. Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an...
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  • opportunities for speakers of all languages. Linguistic imperialism HindiUrdu controversy Bengali Language Movement Bengali Language Movement (Barak Valley)...
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  • as Urdu or Hindi, depending on the background of the speaker/institution. This situation is fraught with sociopolitical factors and controversies, in...
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    considerable influence by Bhojpuri, other Eastern Hindi and Bihari dialects, and Standard Hindi-Urdu. It has also borrowed some vocabulary from English...
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    British Colonial rule, Urdu education and literacy became ever more popular among Indian Muslims (see HindiUrdu controversy), Chitrali literaturists...
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  • (Roman Urdu)." Romanized Urdu is mutually intelligible with Romanized Hindi in informal contexts, unlike Urdu written in the Urdu alphabet and Hindi in Devanagari...
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    Modern Standard Hindi (Hindi: आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, romanized: Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi (Hindi: हिन्दी, Hindī), is an Indo-Aryan...
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    as well as the Urdu sermons and Islamic lectures given in Dhaka. Due to globalization in the culture and entertainment sector, many Hindi words have entered...
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  • Tiruchirappalli India portal HindiUrdu controversy Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937–40 Anti-Hindi agitations of Karnataka...
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  • Like many Indo-Aryan languages, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) has a decimal numeral system that is contracted to the extent that nearly every number 1–99 is...
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    Urdu is declining with the wider use of Hindi and English in these states. Nastaʻliq script Romanization of Urdu Urdu Braille Urdu Informatics Urdu keyboard...
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    Hindi protagonists wanted Modern Standard Hindi register of the Hindustani language to be the sole "national language" of India (replacing the Urdu standard...
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    influenced by Bhojpuri, Awadhi and other Eastern Hindi-Bihari dialects. Hindustani (Standard Hindi-Standard Urdu) has also influenced the language due to the...
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  • registers of the same language for socio-political reasons. See HindiUrdu controversy for further information. Constitution of India, Article 344(1)....
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  • Shayar (poet) (category Urdu-language poetry)
    composes sher or couplet in Urdu poetry (Urdu shayari). A shayar is someone who writes ghazals, nazms using the Urdu, Hindi & Bangla language. Amir Khusro...
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  • organized the Muslims in defense of Urdu. Towards the beginning of the 20th century, the Hindi-Urdu controversy again flared up in the United Provinces...
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    Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. The vast majority of them are Muslims of the HindiUrdu Belt of northern India, followed by the Deccani...
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    2019. Earlier Hindi films tended to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by speakers of either Hindi or Urdu, while modern Hindi productions...
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    Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by...
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