Hindustani
Hindustani (Devanagari: हिन्दुस्तानी, Nastaʿlīq: ہِنْدُسْتانی, Hindustānī), also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the name given to the most widespread Indo-European language in South Asia with 833 million speakers as of 2022[1]. Hindustani has two standards: Hindi, spoken in northern India, is influenced by Sanskrit in its technical vocabulary and written with the Devanagari script, while Urdu, spoken in Pakistan, is influenced by Arabic and Persian and written with the Arabic script.[2]
References
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/ethnologue200/
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=jacxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 Trask, R. L. (8 August 2019), "Hindi-Urdu", Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 149–150, ISBN 9781474473316, "Hindi-Urdu The most important modern Indo-Aryan language, spoken by well over 250 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. At the spoken level Hindi and Urdu are the same language (called Hindustani before the political partition), but the two varieties are written in different alphabets and differ substantially in their abstract and technical vocabularies"
