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Originally Posted by Jimgolf
No, a lot of people get Hindi and Urdu confused.
From Wikipedia:
"Urdū is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardised form of Hindustani. The main difference between the two is that Standard Urdū is written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and draws heavily on Persian and Arabic loanwords, while Standard Hindi is written in Devanāgarī and has inherited significant vocabulary from Sanskrit. Linguists therefore consider Urdū and Hindi to be dialects of the same language.[3] Together Hindi-Urdu is the second most widely spoken language in the world."
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Thanks. Reminds me of the relationship between Serbian (written in Cyrillics) and Croatian (written in Latin letters).