09-11-2006, 10:38 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Sep 11 2006, 12:52 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Sep 11 2006, 12:52 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Does anyone know if there is a movement to write Urdu in Devnagari lipi? That would have a lot of benefits- more accesible to Hindi reading population, makes Urdu into a Indian language and reinforces its Indian indentity. As far as I kow except for the sub-continent no one knows Urdu. And Urdu has mostly Hindusthani words with a smattering of Persian, Trukish and Arabic words.
And as the population of Urdu knowing Indian people gets bigger it removes one more prop of the TSP!
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Yes. In 80s and 90s several magazines and news papers came up with Urdu in Dev Nagari script. Especially in UP and Bihar, such Urdu is very popular. Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav has done a lot to reverse that trend by making Urdu the second state language of UP, written in arabic script. If you visit Noida or Greater Noida, you would be surprised to find software technology parks etc, with signs in urdu (in addition to English, Hindi)
Urdu is official language of 1 state - Kashmir....which I think is ironic to not be Kashmiri but Urdu. That makes Kashmiri the only language of national charter not being official language of any Indian state.
(I thought it may be interesting to note: the birth of word 'Urdu' is from percian 'Orudu' - which means Hords or Camps. This was the language which evolved with islamic invasions)
And as the population of Urdu knowing Indian people gets bigger it removes one more prop of the TSP!
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Yes. In 80s and 90s several magazines and news papers came up with Urdu in Dev Nagari script. Especially in UP and Bihar, such Urdu is very popular. Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav has done a lot to reverse that trend by making Urdu the second state language of UP, written in arabic script. If you visit Noida or Greater Noida, you would be surprised to find software technology parks etc, with signs in urdu (in addition to English, Hindi)
Urdu is official language of 1 state - Kashmir....which I think is ironic to not be Kashmiri but Urdu. That makes Kashmiri the only language of national charter not being official language of any Indian state.
(I thought it may be interesting to note: the birth of word 'Urdu' is from percian 'Orudu' - which means Hords or Camps. This was the language which evolved with islamic invasions)