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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It’s all about politics. Scientific definition would define them as the same language. Just as American English is the same language as Indian English with different accents. In scientific definition, the Sinnitc (Han Chinese) language consists of multiple languages that are not mutually intelligible with each other. Cantonese speakers cannot understand Mandarin speakers, you would have to learn the language. They share similar words but even their language structure is different. Cantonese is as closely related to Mandarin as English is to French, they are in the same language family. Urdu and Hindi are related to English too, that’s why they call it the Indo-European language.
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