Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Unlike languages that evolve naturally, Modern Standard Hindi was deliberately "retro-engineered" in the 19th century to establish a distinct identity from Urdu. This post explores how scholars utilized "Tatsamas"—unmodified Sanskrit…
While Hindi and Urdu rely on completely different writing systems and divergent formal vocabularies—drawing from Sanskrit and Persian respectively—they share an identical grammatical skeleton known as Hindustani. This article explores…
Hindi and Urdu represent a fascinating linguistic paradox: they are mutually intelligible in conversation yet largely incomprehensible to one another in writing. This article explores the history of "Hindustani", the…