Wednesday, September 06, 2006
British English Vs American English

In a conversation, in order to illustrate the difference between urdu and hindi I brought up the analogy of UK English and US English. Not sure how many would agree, I think Urdu is to Hindi as UK English is to US English.

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:05:32 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [3]Trackback
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:37:27 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
The comparison is not apt. UK and US versions of English are derived from the same alphabet base while it is not so for Urdu (based on Persian and Arabic script) and Hindi (based on Devanagiri).

Here are some interesting articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi
Ullas
Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:34:41 AM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I am aware of the script differences, was referring to the dialect. But you are right, the analogy isn't quite apt. Interesting links - I could have never guessed!
Pooja | poojaAT NOSPAMmvps dot org
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:00:12 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
The alphabet used to write a language is not really important (witness Serbo-Croat, written in the Latin script in Croatia but in Cyrillic in Serbia). Most of the time they can be used as a proxy to the language's origin, but other times they can be quite recent.

Malay used to be written in the Jawi (Arabic) script but switched over to the Latin script; traditional Javanese used to be written in a Sanskrit-derived script but now, again, most textbooks use Latin.
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