HindustaniIt is the second or third most widely spoken (but not written) language in the world if you lump both Hindi and Urdu together and call them Hindustani. The common parts of their origins create a dialect that is used as an oral trade language throughout north India and Pakistan. But the uncommon parts of their heritages are odds when it comes to writing it down. People over a certain age go back to either Hindi or Urdu which look very different when written. The youngest speakers of Hindustani use the Roman alphabet in order to better use computers, texting and the Internet. We would use that to make this an alternative to either Urdu or Hindi, which we already offer here, were it not for how dead set against that are some older generations there. So we defer to the Constitution of India which declares Hindi as the official language of the Union and we use that for Hindustani at this time. If you count Hindi and Urdu as two separate languages, then there are more people who speak Bengali. Home |
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