Hindustani Language: Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu
Hindustani is a language.
It is made up of the common parts of Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have similar grammar, but slightly different vocabulary and very different scripts.
| Hindustani | |
|---|---|
| Hindi-Urdu | |
| ہندوستانی • हिन्दुस्तानी | |
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| Native to | Pakistan, India. Various based on religion. |
Native speakers | (240 million cited 1991–1997) Second language: 165 million (1999) Total: 490 million (2006) |
Indo-European
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Standard forms | |
| Dialects |
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| Perso-Arabic (Urdu alphabet) Devanagari (Hindi and Urdu alphabets) Bharati Braille (Hindi and Urdu) Kaithi (historical) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Pakistan (as Urdu) India (as Hindi and Urdu) |
| Regulated by | Central Hindi Directorate (Hindi, India), National Language Authority, (Urdu, Pakistan); National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (Urdu, India) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | hi, ur |
| ISO 639-2 | hin, urd |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:hin – Standard Hindiurd – Urdu |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAF-qa to -qf |
Hindustani was born in Punjab during the Ghaznavid Empire (Lahore as its capital) in the early decades of the eleventh century AD.
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