Why are Hindi and Urdu are considered separate languages but Moroccan Arabic and Iraqi Arabic are considered the same language?

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My understanding is the main difference between Hindi and Urdu is that Hindi is in Devanagari script and Urdu is in a modified form of Arabic Script, and they can understand each others spoken language with ease, whereas Moroccans and Iraqis cannot understand each other at all. Why is this?

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I’m pretty sure Moroccans and Iraqis can understand each other, they’d just need to adjust their natural dialect a bit and maybe slow it down a tad. It’s a stretch to say they can’t understand each other at all, at the very least they’d be able to have basic understanding of each other.

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