No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Bullybeard @lemm.ee 4w ago

Any people who speak Urdu/Hindi on Lemmy?

I seen ppl ask this for other languages and wanted to make one for my language as well

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Well I don't but you can teach me
- I can teach u sure, if you'd like
  
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I don't but I wonder how close these two languages are? Since I sometimes watch Karl Rock on youtube, he apparently speaks both depending on where he is at the moment. Is it like "I understand nearly every word without even trying" or is it more like "If I focus hard enough I get the meaning of what the person is saying"?
- They're different languages yes, but for spoken they're almost interchangeable. Anyone who speaks Urdu will understand spoken Hindi, but each language has specific words unique to their vocabulary. Their vastly different in written too, Hindi is written in sanskrit script and Urdu is written in Arabic script. I speak Urdu but can freely communicate with Hindi speakers and vice versa but cannot read Hindi
  
  I honestly never knew this. Thanks for sharing!
  
  Sound very similar to Serbo-Croatian - a language spectrum divided by geopolitics.
  
  So the same language, but different writing systems. Like if English were written in binary, it'd still be English, but nobody would be able to read it like they could read English text.
  
  They say that the common definition of "a language" is by borders and military, rather than by any linguistic criteria! Lol
  
  See also: "the Chinese language"
  
  Nice, thank you.
I do
I can communicate some basic stuff, but can't really speak it.
- That's cool, what nationality are u and how do u picked up the basics?
  
  South Indian parents, born and grew up in the US.
  
  I can read and speak Telugu well, but know only a few words and phrases in Hindi.
I do too!
- That's so cool! Hi!
  
  Mil ke bohat acha laga, aap urdu bolte ho ya hindi? Aap Kahan ke ho? Aur meri baatein samjh arhi ya English me hi theek tha?
  
  me jyaada tar Hindi hi bolta hu, mujhe bhi app se milke acha laga, me India se hu :)
I think there's some Indian communities on Lemmy but not big one. haven't seen any Pakistani ones
- Am I the pakistani pioneer in Lemmy then? Pretty cool
is hindi also called urdu? I was unaware urdu was still spoken ans I thought it was like what they spoke in mesopotamia in ancient time or something. Its very possible im mixing up two very different things.
- Urdu is spoken in Pakistan and is a sister language of Hindi. They are very similar and there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility. It has some Arabic and Persian influence as I understand it.
  
  Perhaps you might be thinking of the Ugaritic language. It was spoken in the Syria/Lebanon area.
  
  Thank you. You know I was looking it up and I think its just that there was so many names that began with U in like sumer that I just thought the language came from it. Like Ur and Uruk and Eridu (ok that last one does not start with U but has a very U feel :)

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