Hindustani language

Modern Standard Hindi (), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is the lingua franca for most of the northern half of India.

Urdu (, , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also an official Eighth Schedule language in India, the status and cultural heritage of which are recognised by the Constitution of India — alongside having official status in several Indian states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and both Telugu states).

Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu

Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

thumb|A Sufism|Sufi Muslim ascetic (fakir) in [[Bengal during the 1860s]]

Rekhta ( ; Rekhtā) was an early form of the Hindustani language. This style evolved in both the Perso-Arabic and Nagari scripts and is considered an early form of Standard Urdu and Modern Standard Hindi. According to the Pakistani linguist and historian Tariq Rehman, Rekhta was a highly Persianised variant of Hindustani, exclusively used by poets. It was not only the vocabulary that was Persianised, but also the poetic metaphors, inspired by Indian landscapes and seasons, were abandoned in favor of the Persian ones i.e. bahār (spring) replacing barsāt (rainy season).

Phonology of Hindi and Urdu

1984 film by Umesh Mehra

Central Indo-Aryan language

grammar of the Hindustani Language

trade language of the Andaman Islands

secret language spoken by hijra and koti

relationship between the Persian and Urdu languages

aspect of history

-ji (, ) is a gender-neutral honorific used as a suffix in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, such as Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, and Punjabi languages and their dialects prevalent in northern India, north-west and central India.

linguistic dispute

Judeo-Urdu (; ) was a dialect of the Urdu language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th century. It is a dialect that was written in the Hebrew script and found to be used for several pieces of literature, such as Inder Sabha, a copy of which is kept at the British Library.