On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Thejaswi Udupa <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Chew Lin Kay <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> So I was reading an essay about Indian food, when they mentioned the >> adoption of Sanskritized Hindi. Can someone explain what that is? I thought >> Hindi draws roots from Sanskrit, but this seems to be more complicated than >> that. Will offer thanks for now, and drinks when we find each other in the >> same neighbourhood. >> >> > In brief, that phrase is used to separate it from Urdu. > To be more accurate, it is to separate Hindi from Hindustani, which in itself is Hindi-mixed-with-Urdu. (Also, Mumbaiyya Hindi, the language of a lot of Bollywood, is a even more street-ified version of Hindustani.) Hindustani (written in Devnagari script, as opposed to Urdu's right-to-left script) is the lingua franca of large swathes of northern and south-central India. Sanskritized Hindi removes the common-manspeak Hindustani references from Hindi. Makes it "pure" so to speak. But "pure" what nobody knows, as Hindi itself is an amalgam derived from Sanskrit and other languages. Not that it will go far, regardlesss of the BJP's and VHP's idiotic attempts to push it along. My $0.02, Mahesh
