Hindi language

^ Tamil is hard indeed remember bro Muzammil :X

May i ask whats the difference between Urdu and Hindi?

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Hindi I believe is more sanskrit based while Urdu contains alot of Farsi and Arabic. Proper Hindi does not contain any farsi or arabic. Urdu is written in the arabic script (well..not exactly..there are differences) and Hindi is written in the devanagari script. hindi goes from left to right..while urdu goes from right to left. Some people like to say that urdu tends to sound more polite..but I think it's only because there are very few hindi speakers who actually speak shud hindi..or proper hindi. Hindi is spoken in some sort of slang almost everything in India..except for Bhopal..people in the city of Bhopal speak rather well. Urdu in India is most commonly used in Bollywood scripts and song lyrics. I may be wrong..but I believe Urdu is the official language of Pakistan..but punjabi is widely spoken. Hindi is the official language of India..but southern states generally do not acknowledge this and a very small percentage of Indians are native hindi speakers. Most are like me..I have my own language..but I have some basic knowledge of Hindi. Anyone want to add to this? that's all i have.

Salam

^ Thanx admin going to get in that in my brain

Namashkar, mujhe Hindi nahi bolti hai, kintu toda-toda bolti hoon. Me Malayadweep ke hai. Arthi woh Malaysia hai. Mujhe Hindi pat chahiye kyon ke hamare tatabhasha bahut bhura hai. Kya beddha hai Urdu aur Hindi??Mujhe Thai bhasha aur Malayu bhasha bolti hai. Chotti si Sanskrit ko vakyom jaanti hoo me.

hUH, that's really make me sweat to think what is the word in Hindi to be used while some of the words I do not know in Hindi, I use Sanskrit loan words in Malay and Thai...

here are sanskrit loanwords in Malay that I use in my self introduction

Arthi : meaning
tatabhasha : grammar
beddha : difference
bhasha : language
Malayadweep : Malay peninsula

Isn't namashkar sounds Hindu??? what should we use??? is it namaste?? this also sounds Hindu, is it OK for non-Hindu to use it? Buddhist in our ancient time use Swasti Shri for greeting, while Hindus use Om swasiatu or swAsti Awighram... I read them in ancient Hindu mythologies of the South East Asian archipelago written by Panditaisthanas. The language used in South East Asian such as Malay, Javanese, Thai, Khmer and Mon are influenced by Sanskrit due to the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism in the 1st century AD.

whoa..that was intense. Try to keep it simple..and you can say "salam"..you're a muslim who is trying to learn hindi..and even hindi speaking muslims can say salam. most hindu introductions praise "the gods" or some saint. so refrain from using them. also, namaste means to bow down to the inner god within a person..which we know doesn't exist. yet..it's their thinking...and we should respect them for their way of thinking..but i don't feel that we should also start saying it. it kinda contradicts our beliefs.

try saying..salam..aap kaise hain. mera hindi itna khaas nahin hain..leikin yeh sirf meri koshish hain. stuff like that.

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whoa..that was intense. Try to keep it simple..and you can say "salam"..you're a muslim who is trying to learn hindi..and even hindi speaking muslims can say salam. most hindu introductions praise "the gods" or some saint. so refrain from using them. also, namaste means to bow down to the inner god within a person..which we know doesn't exist. yet..it's their thinking...and we should respect them for their way of thinking..but i don't feel that we should also start saying it. it kinda contradicts our beliefs.

try saying..salam..aap kaise hain. mera hindi itna khaas nahin hain..leikin yeh sirf meri koshish hain. stuff like that.

Hmmm, Salam is easier...suits us well, cool

Can we just use verbs with -na ending when talking about doing something because I found that it is difficult when it comes to tenses and cases in Hindi. E.g verb like Suna (listen) or Bolna (speak)?

How about the cases in Hindi? How many cases exist in Hindi? can anyone explain briefly with one or two example perhaps ?

How different can it be if we talk in Urdu or Hindi, aren't they the same language? I think Urdu is easier than Hindi because I found that I can understand Urdu in Pakistani way of speaking rather than in Bollywood movies.

Thanks for treating my curiosity

Love to brothers and sisters in faith