meray paas aik sawaal hai. woh muslimaan jo india may rehte hai (zAk aur sanobar) aap apni zabaan ko urdu kehte hai yaa hindi?

do indian muslims call their language hindi or urdu? and wat kinda differences are there between the two?

shukrya

of course URDU.

well atleast Hyderabad mein to Urdu raaij hai errrrrm its a mixed lang rather.

even the non muslims r gud urdu speakers

but the general public[non muslims] tho call it hindi... but uses urdu words too.
diff ?
well some words differ... but generally its almost the same when it comes to speaking.

writing is totally different.

n as they say BOLLYWOOD...as a hindi film industry.
but nothings hindi in it. its pureeeee urdu

askm sis,
me too indian...an we talk urdu...urdu is the original version of the language, but aftr independence a new script was evolved wich ws referrd to as devnagiri script and the spoken lang was called hindi...dats d history of our lang

absolutely true...n they claim its hindi...

yes in hindi news also gernally they use urdu words

Difference between Hindi and Urdu
- Few words (hindi takes some words from Sanskirit)
- Script (Major Difference)
- Urdu sounds more polite

Urdu sounds better than hindi where they have differences. And Urdu script is also better.

lol, sorry i don't know many members on here

anyway thanks for the replies every1

LOL

I was just strangley baffled on the Name of this thread......

But how wud u say good boy in Hindi and in Urdu?

is it true that before partition urdu was spoken no where within the borders of present day pakistan?

i disagree. i am told that when you read a word in devanagari script you know exactly what it sounds like. (i can't read devanagari) also the arabic script is not all that well suited to an indo-european language.

i agree !
u may know hindi has less alphabets than urdu... n so urdu expresses the pronounciation in a better way
strange !
dont think so !

Allahu A'lam

i've said dis before, n im saying it again, n i'll continue to say dis forever inshallah...urdu is an extremely elegant language, right from the phonetic sounds to the word compositions, sentence sequences n language rhythm...it SOUNDS so eloquent too...others just dont compare...:>

no its not...
i think spoken urdu and hindi are one and the same thing..just with a difference of few words..
the muslims used to write in farsi or maybe arabic script and hindus write it in the devangiri script..thats the basic difference...so thats y urdu is in pak and hindi in india..

wassalam

you probably don't realise it because you've heard urdu all your lives. i am teaching myself and the only urdu i generally get to hear is in music. so if i look at an urdu word, i can't tell for sure how to say it - for example, what the vowels are. i have some audio learning cassettes and they have helped, but often when i encounter a new word, i have no idea what it should sound like. i've heard that devanegari is very specific, that you know exactly how to say the word by looking at it.
i agree wholeheartedly - urdu is a beautiful language. (which is why i'm trying to learn it). i have also read that since partition urdu and hindi are gradually becoming different.
i have another question - the specific version of the arabic script that is used in pakistan - where did it originate? is it used in any other country besides pakistan and india? the farsi i've seen doesn't look like that (but i've only seen it on the web). i think it looks cool, but i have a hard time reading it sometimes, compared to the script used by bbc urdu for example.
hmmm. so it's not true that urdu is not native to the land that is now pakistan? the main languages would've been punjabi, pashto, baluchi sindhi...and urdu? what part of pakistan was urdu native to?
well, i guess that's enough questions! thanks.