The etymology of the word Hindi Urdu is of Chagatai origin, Ordu, cognate with English horde, and known in local translation as Lashkari Zaban, which is shorted to Lashkari .
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11 Facts About Hindi Urdu
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In common usage in India, the term Hindi includes all these dialects except those at the Urdu spectrum.
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Grierson, in his highly influential Linguistic Survey of India, proposed that the names Hindustani, Urdu, and Hindi be separated in use for different varieties of the Hindustani language, rather than as the overlapping synonyms they frequently were:.
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At the state level, Hindi Urdu is one of the official languages in 10 of the 29 Indian states and three Union Territories, respectively: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal; Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Delhi.
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In many other states, studying Hindi Urdu is usually compulsory in the school curriculum as a third language, though the intensiveness of Hindi Urdu in the curriculum varies.
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Hindi Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, where it shares official language status with English.
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In India, Hindi Urdu is one of the languages recognised in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and is an official language of the Indian states of Bihar, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and the Union Territories of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Kaithi and Devanagari are two of the Brahmic scripts native to India, whereas the Hindi Urdu alphabet is a derivation of the Perso-Arabic script written in Nasta?liq, which is the preferred calligraphic style for Hindi Urdu.
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In India, the Hindi register is officially written in Devanagari, and Urdu in the Urdu alphabet, to the extent that these standards are partly defined by their script.
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Since Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible when spoken, Romanised Hindi and Roman Urdu are mostly mutually intelligible as well.
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