--- Alfred de Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tariqji, > > Din't Hindi and Urdu --same but different alphabet ? -- come on the scene > more as a colonial lingua franca, to serve the Indo-Brittish administration > and military purposes?
Not really. I believe Amir Khusro first wrote Urdu couplets, and that was before the British. Urdu and Hindi both have origins in Khari Boli, a language spoken in the Gangetic plains. I found this website that gives a nice short overview: http://www.urdustan.com/faq.html -Tariq __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
