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Grammatical features of the Hindustani lingua franca

Pas Ek

Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.

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Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.

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