Are there major differences between Hindi and Urdu languages?

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Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardised form of Hindustani.[11] The main differences between the two are that Standard Urdu is conventionally written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and draws vocabulary more heavily from Persian and Arabic, [12] while Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devanāgarī and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit comparatively[13] more heavily.[5] Most linguists nonetheless consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language;[14][15] others classify them separately [16], while some consider any differences to be sociolinguistic.[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu Aug 11 09, 7:01 PM

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At the level of the colloquial language that is spoken spontaneously or is heard in Bollywood movies, Hindi and Urdu are virtually the identical language. They are, however, written in two different scripts, Urdu in the Perso-Arabic script and Hindi in the Devanagari script of Sanskrit. In the literary or "chaste" dialect, Urdu uses many more Persian & Arabic words and grammatical forms than Hindi, whose literary dialect is more Sanskritised. But it is false to suppose Hindi lacks Persian & Arabic loanwords and Urdu lacks etymologically Sanskrit words. Both languages share a common lexicon that includes native (Indian), Arabic, Persian, and English loanwords. When expressing the elevated thoughts of science, philosophy, art and politics, the Muslims of India naturally always drew from the wealth of Arabic and Persian literary words, whereas the Hindus turned toward Sanskrit. This accounts for the differences between Hindi and Urdu (in vocabulary but almost never in grammar), but these are differences which exist primarily at the elite level and in abstract vocabulary. http://www.geocities.com/sikmirza/arabic/hindustani.html The main difference lies in the scripts used by the two languages (back in 1200’s Urdu adopted the Persian writing system). The rest, including grammar and most of the vocabulary, is identical. Dr. A. J. Khan calls this an “artificial divide” writing that Hindi and Urdu are in fact “one language with two separate scripts and with two names: Hindi, when written in Nagari, and Urdu, when written in Arabic.” http://www.langbridge.com/blog/2009/03/19/hindi-and-urdu-origins-translation-and-phrases/ Aug 11 09, 7:02 PM