Hindustani is the umbrella term for the shared spoken language behind standard Hindi and standard Urdu. In everyday conversation the two are essentially one language, and a Hindi speaker from Delhi and an Urdu speaker from Lahore can chat freely. The split shows in writing and formal vocabulary: Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and reaches for Sanskrit-derived words, while Urdu uses the Perso-Arabic script and draws on Persian and Arabic. Counted together, Hindustani has several hundred million native speakers across northern India and Pakistan, with hundreds of millions more using it as a second language. It is also the language of Bollywood cinema, which has carried colloquial Hindustani far beyond South Asia. Both Hindi and Urdu are well established community languages in the UK.
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