The word Urdú or Urdu is a language that is spoken mainly in Pakistan where it is established as the official language and India, where it is considered one of the 24 main languages of the country. In Pakistani despite being considered the official language, few speak it as their mother tongue, only people who represent a social and economic elite.
Urdu and Hindi are two similar dialects, they can be understood in a basic category, if both languages refrain from using specialized terminologies, the difference that may exist between both dialects is that Urdu is used as a dialect written by Muslim speakers, and which is transcribed slightly adapted to the Persian alphabet.
In contrast, Hindi is used by Hindu speakers and is written in the Devanagari alphabet, initially used by Sanskrit. Although colloquially, the language is almost the same, the educated rules of Urdu always use some terms of Persian and Arabic origin, meanwhile, Hindi formally interposes Sanskrit as a source of the cultured dialect.
90% of the Pakistani population has a maternal dialect other than Urdu, so this is learned as a second or third language, however, Urdu was chosen to represent the symbol of unity, so that there is no preference for One dialect over another, therefore, is a language that is spoken and understood in one way or another by the majority of its inhabitants. Urdu is commonly divided into four languages: modern vernacular Urdu, which is used in metropolitan centers such as Dheli, Lahore, and Lucknow. The Dakhini, which is spoken in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Pinjari and the Rekhta, which is a kind of Urdu but focused within the literary context of poetry.
