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Whats all this fuss about origin of URDU!!!!!

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LAHORI

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Dec 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/26/96

hello all,

I have missed the livliest part of this exciting debate, but i cant help but
think why is it so hard to understand the origin and evolution of Urdu. it
seems pretty easy to understand how Urdu/Hindi might have evolved. We see
it everyday in our houses if we have school age kids of urdu/hindi speaking
parents, that when people are faced with two different languages they
eventually combine the two in a new form of their own. consider the following
sentence:
"YahaN itnee 'tablaiN' paree haiN, koee see bhee 'pick' ker lo".
and this one that my 13 yr old cousin said couple of weeks ago:

"Oh, their 'baverchi-khana' was so dirty, I almost 'ooltied' (threw up)

so you see that similar situation might have been the cause of origination of
a new street language in India when Arabs and Persians invaded the land. a
phylogenetic tree of urdu/hindi might be constructed as follows:

the question remains, why a difference in writing script and vocabulary. thats
not hard to explain either. taking the two sentences above, its clear that the
people whose background is Urdu speaking tend to use more urdu than english,
similarly kids that are brought up here in US use more english than urdu.
Hybridization of persian/sanskrit into Urdu/Hindi thus kept a major hue of
the mother language because of the differnce of the cultural and linguistic
background of the people speaking it. people of the persian or arab descent
used their own script while Indians retained sanskrit script.

Thus i believe that it is not unfair to say that Urdu IS a language of the
Muslims, but only of the Subcontinent. Though i agree that language or art
etc should not be considered properties of a certain group of people. but
then it is also true that when a certain group of people originate something,
it is inevitably associated specifically with them.

This might be too simplistic an approach to the evolution of the Urdu/Hindi
language, but i think its effectively applicable. It is, in any case, my
two-cents worth.

A further analogy of relationship between urdu and hindi can be the relation-
ship/differnce between Pakistani Punjabi and Indian Punjabi.

regards,

Raza Zaidi

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