Why do some languages like Hindu have their own alphabet but also sometimes spell words in English?
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I didn’t know there was a language known as Hindu. Is there a Christian or Muslim language too? Anyway, I’ll assume you meant Hindi.
It’s simply because of so much influence of western media and British Colonial rule for centuries. English borrowed so many words from french due to Norman Conquest, etc.
I speak Hindi as a 3rd language. Ask me anything you want to.
Because around the world English has become somewhat of a Lingua Franca, due to British colonization and American influence.
You look close to anywhere in the world and you’ll see that English is one of the big languages kids/people are taught, because it’s very useful.
With that, countries that don’t speak English and don’t use the same alphabet as English speakers have recently started “translating” their words into the English alphabet, spelling things like city names/building names twice on signs, once in their language and once in the English alphabet version, so even if English speakers can’t actually speak the language, they can still pronounce the name of the place on the sign.
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