I've always felt that Hindi is a relatively young concept as an independent language (not able to pin down an exact period in a few google searches yet). But I loved this line from the Wikipedia entry [1]
"Due to religious nationalism and communal tensions, speakers of both Hindi and Urdu frequently assert that they are distinct languages, despite the fact that native speakers generally cannot tell the colloquial languages apart" How true is that? I can't tell them apart, but I'm very far from being the person to be asked. Dibyo [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindi
