why did muslims support urdu in 18th century
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Urdu has been described as a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.[17][18] Urdu and Hindi share a common Indo-Aryan vocabulary base and very similar phonology and syntax, making them mutually intelligible in colloquial speech.[19][20] Formal Urdu draws literary and technical vocabulary and some simple grammatical structures from Persian,[21] whereas formal Hindi draws these from Sanskrit.[21]
Urdu became a literary language in the 18th-century and two similar standard forms came into existence in Delhi and Lucknow; since 1947 a third standard has arisen in Karachi.[22][23] Deccani, an older form used in the south, is now considered obsolete.[23]
Urdu was chosen as the language of East India Company rule across northern India in 1837 when the Company chose it to replace Persian, the court language of the Indo-Islamic empires.[24] Religious, social, and political factors arose during the colonial period that advocated for a distinction between Urdu and Hindi, leading to the Hindi–Urdu controversy.[25]
According to Nationalencyklopedin's 2010 estimates, Urdu is the 21st most spoken first language in the world, with approximately 66 million who speak it as their native language.[26] According to Ethnologue's 2018 estimates, Urdu, is the 11th most widely spoken language in the world,[27] with 170 million total speakers, including those who speak it as a second language.[28]
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