Re: Isn’t Khalis (Shudh) Hindi mean Sanskrit?
as far as i understand it, Hindi is quite pure unlike Urdu which has acquired vocab from different languages [Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English etc]. India’s Judicial language is heavily Arabisized and Persianized even today.
if you read Hindi [saahitya (literature)], you hardly find any adulteration from other languages [not even Arabic or Persian].
of course, like Urdu, literary Hindi too is totally different from street-level [common man’s language] lingo.
sach to yeh hai k aam bol chaal meN Hindi aur Urdu donoN hii khichRii ban chukii haiN.