Speaking hindi...good or bad?

[diwana]

Re: Speaking hindi…good or bad?

@queer

i think you are terribly confused between hindi and sanskrit. sanskrit is a dead language, which is the root of pretty much every language in north india and pakistan to the east of the indus, and a couple to the west.

hindavi is a dialect of urdu? that is like saying latin is a dialect of italian.

urdu is a standardized register of the greater hindustani language. and so is hindi. urdu is standardized to include more of the persian vocab, hindi leans more towards sanskrit/tatsam vocab. the languages are mutually intelligible at a colloquial level, and pretty different when formal.

it is that simple until you start to politicize and communalize it.

Sansirit is not dead. Even though it is now considered less than 1% in usage.

What is called Hindi now is Urdu and those who really do not want to speak like Urdu, add Sanskrit words in it…as much as possible.

A language does not really die altogether, it changes its form in to something else and the original form which used to have 100% of its pure words just get forgotten. Roots still stay alive.

I did not say hindavi is a dilect. It is another name of Urdu.

Your third paragraph has some sense in it.

But the problem is that there is no real language as Hindi, only reason it is promoted as such is because after division Indians/Hindustanis wanted to have something which could somehow separate from “Predominantly (Evil) Muslims Heritage”…namely Arabic, Persian and Turkish.