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Comment Hindi and Urdu??? (Score 2, Informative) 626

by pendsepr on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:11PM (#8300042) Attached to: Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming?

a Hindi and an Urdu speaker can understand each others language as well as an Englishman can understand American English. Know why? Because they're pretty much the same damn language with different scripts (Urdu has a few more Persian words and Hindi has a few more Sanskrit words, but both have a HUGE common vocabulary).

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