Languages of India
Not just Hindi but Gujarati has a dialect that is heavily influenced by Perso-Arabic vocabulary called Lisan ud-Da&#x27;wat [0] As a native speaker of the later, I can fully attest to the fact that the language isn&#x27;t mutually intelligible with Gujarati as spoken in India. It is even more true for the written form of these languages. There&#x27;s a day and night difference with Perso-Arabic influence simply overwhelming its Gujarati roots.<p>This is also true for Hindi and Urdu, and you can tell esp if you&#x27;re exposed to both. When you study both the languages theologically and linguistically, the differences become ever more apparent. It is only the mash of Hindi-Urdu called Hindustani [1] (popularized in modern day by Bollywood) that&#x27;s mutually intelligible to both Hindi and Urdu speakers alike, and only in its spoken form.<p>I, for sure, know that the Punjabi [2] spoke in Multan (Saraiki) <i>sounds</i> different than anything I&#x27;ve heard in India; but my Indian Punjabi friends tell me its mutually intelligible to them.<p>Imo, the Hindi-Urdu debate isn&#x27;t similar to a Croatian-Serbian or even the EasternPunjabi-WesternPunjabi one, where the vocabulary remains the same for the most part and only phonetics remain a predominant source of divergence.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lisan_ud-Dawat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lisan_ud-Dawat</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hindi–Urdu_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hindi–Urdu_controversy</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Punjabi_dialects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Punjabi_dialects</a>