On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Charles-H.Schulz wrote : [...] >Very encouraging indeed. There seems to be other big languages >(constitutional ones) such as Sindhi and Kashmiri, but how about >Hindustani? I've heard it's not a constitutionally-recognized >language, but that it is spoken by many. Could it also help boost >the adoption of OOo?
There is no such language called Hindustani nowadays. Hindustani was the name given by the British to an egalitarian language that shaded into dialects spoken over a large portion of India. It has now been artificially divided into Urdu and Hindi due to political exigencies; a linguistic partition that was deliberately carried out in the process of formalization of the spoken language into written scripts. Common people speaking Urdu and Hindi still have little trouble in understanding each other. Regards, Gora
