Language comparison
Hindi vs Urdu
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Hindustani. Both are used in: India.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Hindi
हिन्दी
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Shaurasenic
- Indo-Aryan Central zone
- Western Hindi
- Hindustani
- Hindi
- Script
- Devanagari
- Hello / thank you
- नमस्ते / धन्यवाद (namaste / dhanyavād)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 580 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Co-official (1)
- India
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 4 countries
Urdu
اردو
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Shaurasenic
- Indo-Aryan Central zone
- Western Hindi
- Hindustani
- Urdu
- Script
- Arabic
- Hello / thank you
- السلام علیکم / شکریہ (assalām-o-alaikum / shukriya)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 313 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Co-official (1)
- Pakistan
- Official in a region (1)
- India
- Without status
- a minority language in 3 countries
Where they are spoken
- Hindi 1
- Urdu 1
- both 1
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.