Hindustani language

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Hindustani (Hindi–Urdu) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Hindi-Urdu Belt, and spoken across North, Central, West, and East India, as well as in Pakistan, as a lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by a minority Deccani-speaking community which extends into South India. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (Prakritised and Sanskritised register written in the Brahmic script) and Urdu (Persianised and Arabised register written in the Perso-Arabic script), both of which are official languages of India, with the latter also serving as the national language of Pakistan. Thus, it is also called Hindi–Urdu. Colloquial registers of the language fall on a spectrum between these standards. The concept of a Hindustani language as a "unifying language" or "fusion language" that could transcend communal and religious divisions across the subcontinent was endorsed by Mahatma Gandhi, as it was not seen to be associated with either the Hindu...

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