Hi,
Gora Mohanty wrote:
There is no such language called Hindustani nowadays. Hindustani was
the name given by the British to an egalitarian language that shaded
into dialects spoken over a large portion of India. It has now been
artificially divided into Urdu and Hindi due to political exigencies;
a linguistic partition that was deliberately carried out in the process
of formalization of the spoken language into written scripts. Common
people speaking Urdu and Hindi still have little trouble in
understanding each other.
Thanks for the info. Folks, you'll never believe this: I got word of the
popularity of the Hindustani language by reading the CIA Factbook...
Heck, the CIA has data that dates back from 50 years old! Talking about
updating databases in Langley.... :-P
Thanks,
Charles.
Regards,
Gora
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