{"id":3285,"date":"2012-10-07T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2013-04-02T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T22:01:12","slug":"hindi-or-urdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/hindi-or-urdu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindi or Urdu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might have heard about Hindi and Urdu and wondered, what the difference between the two languages? Are they same?<\/p>\n

Hindi is originated from 9th<\/sup>\u00a0to 11th<\/sup>\u00a0century. Thereafter, the Islamic invaders have promoted and forced the use of their own tongue to the Indians, be it Turkish, Persian as well as Pashto. Because of that, many words of these languages \u00a0entered into the vocabulary of people. Arabic words also came along because of their prominence in Persian and its importance because of religion of Islam. An entirely new language like Urdu is made from Hindi and promoted for the Islamic courts just like British rule favored the use of English from 18th century onward.<\/p>\n

There are some striking differences between Hindi and Urdu. First, Hindi uses Devanagari script which is used by Sanskrit while Urdu uses script from Persian. Second, Hindi uses more words derived from Sanskrit and lesser words which are loaned from Urdu while Urdu uses more words which are derived from Arabic, Turkish and Persian.<\/p>\n

The biggest similarity between the two is, both use the same grammatical structure which is derived from Sanskrit including verbs. Hence, both\u00a0of the languages, be it Hindi and Urdu\u00a0originated\u00a0indirectly from Sanskrit. For example,<\/p>\n

\u0935\u094b \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0930\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948? –\u00a0Wo kaam karta\u00a0 hai? – Does he works?<\/p>\n

Where\u00a0\u0915\u093e\u092e \u00a0(<\/em>kaam – work)<\/em>\u00a0comes from \u0915\u0930\u094d\u092e \u00a0(karm<\/em>) from Sanskrit.<\/p>\n

Both of the languages use the same verbs like\u00a0\u201ckaam karna\u201d<\/em> (<\/em>\u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u093e – <\/em>to work)<\/em>. However, the vocabulary is different because of the origin of their derived words.<\/p>\n

\u0939\u0943\u0926\u092f (Hardaya<\/em>) and \u0926\u093f\u0932 (Dil<\/em>) is used for Heart in Hindi and Urdu respectively. Other words like \u0927\u0928\u094d\u092f\u0935\u093e\u0926 (dhanyavad – thanks) of Hindi \u0927\u0928\u094d\u092f Dhanya<\/em>) and \u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e Shukriya \u00a0(Arabic,\u00a0Shukran<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Many don\u2019t realize this fact because they have been conditioned by popular media such as films. Those films are labeled as Hindi films but mixture of Hindi and Urdu. Many films as well as media such as daily soaps, magazine etc are using more and more words from Urdu without even realizing it.<\/p>\n

List is long but I would like to point to some of Urdu words which are infrequently used by the native Hindi speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Urdu<\/strong><\/td>\nHindi<\/strong><\/td>\nEnglish Translation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0926\u094b\u0938\u094d\u0924 – Dost<\/td>\n\u092e\u093f\u0924\u094d\u0930 – Mitr<\/td>\nFriend<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e – Shukriya<\/td>\n\u0927\u0928\u094d\u092f\u0935\u093e\u0926 – Dhanyavad<\/td>\nThank\/Thank you<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0926\u093f\u0932 – Dil<\/td>\n\u0939\u0943\u0926\u092f\u00a0– Hardiya<\/td>\nHeart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0914\u0930\u0924 – Aurat<\/td>\n\u0938\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 – Stri<\/td>\nWoman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0906\u091c\u093c\u093e\u0926\u0940 – Azadi<\/td>\n\u0938\u094d\u0935\u0924\u0928\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0924\u093e – Svatantrata<\/td>\nIndependence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0915\u093e\u0928\u0942\u0928 – Kanoon<\/td>\n\u0928\u093f\u092f\u092e – Niyam<\/td>\nRule\/Law<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0938\u093e\u0939\u092c – Sahab<\/td>\n\u0936\u094d\u0930\u0940\u092e\u093e\u0928 – Shrimaan<\/td>\nMister<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0916\u0942\u0928 – Khoon<\/td>\n\u0930\u0915\u094d\u0924 – Rakt<\/td>\nBlood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0907\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0924 – Imaarat<\/td>\n\u092d\u0935\u0928 – Bhavan<\/td>\nBuilding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0926\u093f\u0928 – Din<\/td>\n\u0926\u093f\u0935\u0938 – Divas<\/td>\nDay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0939\u093e\u0932\u0924 – Halat<\/td>\n\u0938\u094d\u0925\u093f\u0924\u093f – Sthithi<\/td>\nCondition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0915\u092e\u0930\u093e – Kamara<\/td>\n\u0915\u0915\u094d\u0937 – Kaksh<\/td>\nRoom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0926\u0930\u0935\u093e\u091c\u093e – Darwaza<\/td>\n\u0926\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930 – Dwar<\/td>\nDoor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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You might have heard about Hindi and Urdu and wondered, what the difference between the two languages? Are they same? Hindi is originated from 9th\u00a0to 11th\u00a0century. Thereafter, the Islamic invaders have promoted and forced the use of their own tongue to the Indians, be it Turkish, Persian as well as Pashto. Because of that, many…<\/p>\n

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