Writing History Of Urdu Language In Urdu
I am a japanese phd student researching the history of india and learning urdu is necessary for my research.
Writing history of urdu language in urdu. Urdu is spoken the same as present day hindi but hindi uses the traditional devanagari script a decedent of sanskrit whereas urdu uses the persio arabic alphabet. It is a modification of the persian alphabet known as perso arabic which is itself a derivative of the arabic alphabet. So in 1867 they gathered in banaras and created a language called hindi which is nothing more that urdu written in sanskrit script.
Urdu is spoken as a first language by nearly 70 million people and as a second language by more than 100 million people predominantly in pakistan and india it is the official state language of pakistan and is also officially recognized or scheduled in the constitution of india. This work published in delhi in 1920 is a history of the urdu language from its origins to the development of an urdu literature. When i knocked on the door of zabaan for the first time i possessed an inferiority complex about learning foreign languages especially about hindi and urdu.
Urdu language member of the indo aryan group within the indo european family of languages. The urdu alphabet is the right to left alphabet used for the urdu language. In the delhi region of india the native language was khariboli whose earliest form is.
Some linguists have suggested that the earliest forms of urdu evolved from the medieval 6th to 13th century apabhraṃśa register of the preceding shauraseni language a middle indo aryan language that is also the ancestor of other modern indo aryan languages. Urdu reading and writing. However contrary to popular belief urdu was not created in the army camps of the mughal army.
Usage history from wikipedia. Urdu and hindi share an indo aryan base but urdu is associated with the nastaliq script style of persian calligraphy and reads right to left whereas hindi resembles sanskrit and reads left to right. The urdu alphabet has up to 58 letters.
Official language of moghuls was persian logically this was written in persian script. Urdu like hindi is a form of hindustani. The origin of the urdu language is the mughal empire s word for army urdu.
These two languages had not only a common history and vocabulary but also an identical grammatical structure. But later on hindus felt that urdu is getting very popular and the script of urdu is a foreign script. The earliest linguistic influences in the development of urdu.
