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Post by indophile Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:00 am

wrt to the Telangana bill.

There is so much pure Urdu in the report that it could very well be Radio Pakistan. May be for the benefit of Hyderabadies.


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Post by Hellsangel Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:14 am

Pure Urdu? That sounds nothing like Pakistani Urdu.
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Post by indophile Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:49 am

kaafi afra-tafri ka mahol ...

saaf hone men takrai....

eh sub Hindi?

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Post by b_A Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:51 am

Wikipedia says urdu and hindi are "The colloquial languages are all but indistinguishable, and even though the official standards are nearly identical in grammar, they differ in literary conventions and in academic and technical vocabulary, "

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Post by Hellsangel Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:52 am

indophile wrote:kaafi afra-tafri ka mahol ...

saaf hone men takrai....

eh sub Hindi?

Pakistani Urdu sounds something like this:

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Post by indophile Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:57 pm

I have a Pakistani colleague/friend whose wife used to the Urdu news in a local TV channel here in Washington. He used to say me he couldn't understand most of what she had been reading. His family, originally from Bareilly in India, spoke Urdu at home, but he never formally learned the language, having grown up in Europe and later in the U.S. He does speak refined Urdu.

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