12 Facts About Hindustani language

Some scholars trace the Hindustani language's first written poetry, in the form of Old Hindi, to as early as 769 AD.

The Hindustani vernacular became an expression of Indian national unity during the Indian Independence movement, and continues to be spoken as the common language of the people of the northern Indian subcontinent, which is reflected in the Hindustani vocabulary of Bollywood films and songs.

Early forms of present-day Hindustani developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhramsa vernaculars of present-day North India in the 7th–13th centuries, chiefly the Dehlavi dialect of the Western Hindi category of Indo-Aryan languages that is known as Old Hindi.

Hindustani language began to take shape as a Persianised vernacular during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire in South Asia.

However, as an emerging common dialect, Hindustani language absorbed large numbers of Persian, Arabic, and Turkic loanwords, and as Mughal conquests grew it spread as a lingua franca across much of northern India; this was a result of the contact of Hindu and Muslim cultures in Hindustan that created a composite Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.

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The Perso-Arabic script form of this Hindustani language underwent a standardisation process and further Persianisation during this period and came to be known as Urdu, a name derived from Persian: Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla or Zaban-e Urdu.

Hindustani language is perhaps the lingua franca of the north and west of the Indian subcontinent, though it is understood fairly well in other regions, especially in the urban areas.

One might reasonably assume that the Hindustani language spoken in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and Varanasi is somewhat different.

The Hindustani language is instead recognised by its standard forms, Hindi and Urdu.

Hindustani language contains around 5,500 words of Persian and Arabic origin.

Historically, Hindustani language was written in the Kaithi, Devanagari, and Urdu alphabets.

Today, Hindustani language continues to be written in the Urdu alphabet in Pakistan.