Re: Why Sanskrit never became a common man's language?
Google Indo-Aryan, and look at the Britanica entry. They are not letting post the link.
Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Seraiki, Hindko, Chitrali, Pahari and Shina are all Indo-Aryan languages. The vocabularly in Urdu is mostly Farsi-Arabic, but it is definetly an Indo-Aryan language. Urdu is basically an Arobo-Persianized version of Khari Boli, a language spoken in a region extending from Meerut to Shahjahanpur in UP. Historically, the tem Urdu speakers only applied to this group (Musharaf, Altaf Hussain, Hali, Sharar, Ghalib, Raees Amrohvi e.t.c), but now been extended to all North Indian muslims.
Re: Why Sanskrit never became a common man's language?
^^
there's the south Indian Hyderabadi community too. speaks Urdu, still not North Indian.
plus, there was once a time when there existed Hindu Urdu speakers.
Google Indo-Aryan, and look at the Britanica entry. They are not letting post the link.
Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Seraiki, Hindko, Chitrali, Pahari and Shina are all Indo-Aryan languages.
I know it is a common perception. However, all above languages are considered Indo-Aryan only because they are replete with words from Sanskrit and others, but all above are primarily local languages of Indus Valley.
Their grammar is similar to themselves, and does not match with other Indo-Aryan languages, like Persian, English, Sanskrit, etc.
To call these languages "Indo-Aryan" when these are basically local languages of region, is like calling English a Romance language when it is basically a Germanic language.
Re: Why Sanskrit never became a common man's language?
Khoji bhai,
there are only two indigenous languages in pakistan, brohi and barusho. the claim of burosho, spoken in hunza is unchallanged, while scholars have always debated about brohi, and its possible links to the indus valley.its a dravidian language and distantly related to tamil. the rest of us are descended from central asian nomads like the shakas, hunas, gurjaras, kushanas etc.