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Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu), the Muhajir people of Pakistan, Muslims in the Terai of Nepal, and the Biharis and Dhakaiyas of Old Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Urdu literature originated sometime around the 14th century in present-day North India among the sophisticated gentry of the courts. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu.
The saying holds that the world is supported by an infinite stack of increasingly larger turtles. " Turtles all the way down " is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger ...
A temporary jugaad improvised repair for a broken support Jugaaḍ (or jugaaṛ) is a colloquial word in Indo-Aryan languages, which refers to a non-conventional, frugal innovation, often termed a "hack". It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way. It is also often used to signify creativity ...
A number of proverbs derive from the story, with the general meaning of being to blame for one's own misfortune. They include the Hebrew 'the axe goes to the wood from whence it borrowed its helve,' of which there are Kannada and Urdu equivalents, and the Turkish ‘When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said "The handle is one of us".'
Glottolog. dakh1244. Hyderabadi Urdu ( Urdu: حیدرآبادی اردو) is a variety of Deccani Urdu, spoken in areas of the former Hyderabad State, corresponding to Telangana, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka . It is the native language of the non-Telugu speaking Hyderabadi diaspora.
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Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit -derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2] However, in formal speech, Hindi tends to draw on ...