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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Urdu/Hindi are at times referred to as one language, Hindustani. While Urdu is a national language of Pakistan and the main lingua franca, only a rather small minority speak it as their mother tongue. India actually has a significantly larger population of native Urdu speakers. Correspondingly, the Hindi language movie industry, Bollywood, historically has intentionally written scripts to make movies accessible to both Urdu and Hindi speakers.
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