Urdu speaking Pathan

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Re: Urdu speaking Pathan

@muqawwee123

Its all about migration. Language is one of the first calamity when people migrate. Like if you live in USA for 2-3 generations, your next generations won’t speak Urdu.

I remember one exception to this migration rule and that is Mughals in India. They kept on speaking Persian till the time of Bahadur Shah Zafar i.e. more than 3 centuries. But they were the elites and probably their mother tongue was Turkish and not Persian. Babar wrote his autobiography ‘Tuzk’ in Turkish.

If they learn local languages instead of Persian they might win the hearts of local population. But the fact of speaking Persian is wonderful. Why did they feel to learn Persian instead of Sanskrit or Hindi?