Dialects of Urdu/Hindi languages

Urdu is precisely classified as an Indo-European language on the Western Hindi branch of the language ranking. It does not only share roots with Hindi, but linguists actually classify Hindi-Urdu as one language with four different tongue: Hindi, Urdu, Dakhini and Rekhta (used in Urdu poetry).

Dialects differ from each other in the same way languages accomplish, structure, sounds, phonology, and semantic. Two ways of speaking change into two different languages due to the degree of difference rather than the types of differences.

 Think about American English and British English, or even different dialects of English within your own country. Speakers may use slightly different grammatical structures, sound a bit different, and sometimes use different words to mean certain things, but they can still understand each other most of the time. Two ways of speaking are said to be two dialects of the same language when there is reciprocal simplicity, meaning that the two speakers can understand each other.

The division is mainly a political one before the partition of India into India and Pakistan, spoken Hindi and Urdu were considered the same language, Hindustani. Apart from the difference in writing systems, the other main difference between Hindi and Urdu is that Hindi contains more vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu contains more vocabulary from Persian.