Any people who speak Urdu/Hindi on Lemmy?

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• kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t but I wonder how close these two languages are? Since I sometimes watch Karl Rock on youtube, he apparently speaks both depending on where he is at the moment. Is it like “I understand nearly every word without even trying” or is it more like “If I focus hard enough I get the meaning of what the person is saying”?

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  • Bullybeard@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re different languages yes, but for spoken they’re almost interchangeable. Anyone who speaks Urdu will understand spoken Hindi, but each language has specific words unique to their vocabulary. Their vastly different in written too, Hindi is written in sanskrit script and Urdu is written in Arabic script. I speak Urdu but can freely communicate with Hindi speakers and vice versa but cannot read Hindi

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Nice, thank you.

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    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I honestly never knew this. Thanks for sharing!

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    • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sound very similar to Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian-Montenegrin. A language spectrum divided by geopolitics.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So the same language, but different writing systems. Like if English were written in binary, it’d still be English, but nobody would be able to read it like they could read English text.

      They say that the common definition of “a language” is by borders and military, rather than by any linguistic criteria! Lol

      See also: “the Chinese language”

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well I don’t but you can teach me :)

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• edgerunnergit@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do

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• IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can communicate some basic stuff, but can’t really speak it.

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  • Bullybeard@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s cool, what nationality are u and how do u picked up the basics?

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    • IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      South Indian parents, born and grew up in the US.

      I can read and speak Telugu well, but know only a few words and phrases in Hindi.

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• kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do too!

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  • Bullybeard@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s so cool! Hi!

    Mil ke bohat acha laga, aap urdu bolte ho ya hindi? Aap Kahan ke ho? Aur meri baatein samjh arhi ya English me hi theek tha?

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    • kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      me jyaada tar Hindi hi bolta hu, mujhe bhi app se milke acha laga, me India se hu :)

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