Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hindustani is a language. It is made up of the common parts of Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have similar grammar, but slightly different vocabulary and very different scripts.
Hindustani | |
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Hindi-Urdu | |
ہندوستانی • हिन्दुस्तानी | |
Native to | Pakistan, India. Various based on religion. |
Native speakers | (240 million[1] cited 1991–1997) Second language: 165 million (1999)[2] Total: 490 million (2006)[3] |
Indo-European
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Standard forms | |
Dialects |
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Perso-Arabic (Urdu alphabet) Devanagari (Hindi and Urdu alphabets) Bharati Braille (Hindi and Urdu) Kaithi (historical) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Pakistan (as Urdu) India (as Hindi and Urdu) |
Regulated by | Central Hindi Directorate (Hindi, India),[4] National Language Authority, (Urdu, Pakistan); National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (Urdu, India)[5] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | hi, ur |
ISO 639-2 | hin, urd |
ISO 639-3 | Either:hin – Standard Hindiurd – Urdu |
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-qa to -qf |
Hindustani was born in Punjab during the Ghaznavid Empire (Lahore as its capital) in the early decades of the eleventh century AD.[6]
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