Why is Urdu considered an Aryan language?

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Re: Why is Urdu considered an Aryan language?

@muqawwee123

I don’t know about the other languages, but major work on Sindhi grammar was done in British era, who also promoted other local languages. My point is grammar which is noramlly developed after centuries, can’t be taken to prove origin of that language.

By ‘working on grammar’ here you mean “defining” the grammar of a language. This work does not change the way people speak a language.

One more point Sindhi / Punjabi were mainly written in Devnagri / Gurmukhi style and the Arabic / Persian style has been followed just one/ two centuries ago. I never heard that Urdu was ever written in Devnagri / Gurmukhi style.

What does script has to do with the origin of a language?

I don’t like to give up Persian script for Urdu but fact is that Persian/Arabic script is foreign to all local languages (Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, etc.) and had to be modified to fit the language. Same is the case with all Northern European languages who modified the foreign Roman script to fit their respective language.