Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tagalog, among 16 languages on UAE-MOI smartphone App. Published Friday, January 29, 2016. By Staff. The Smart Government Programme at the Ministry of Interior announced that ...

While Hindi is a descendant of sanskrit Urdu comes mostly from Arabic & Persian, even the writing looks similar to Arabic & Persian. Bengali is also a part of Sanskrit. Recommend 0 ...

Chhattisgarh's BJP-ruled government plans to replace Urdu, Arabic, and Persian terms in the state police regulations with 'pure Hindi' alternatives. Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma emphasized ...

As for adjectives and nouns, Urdu favours the ones borrowed from Arabic and Persian while Hindi has a penchant for the ones with Prakrit and Sanskrit roots, though nouns and adjectives borrowed ...

In his book, The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism Paperback, Orsini Francesca explains: “The Hindi-Urdu controversy of the late 19th century was ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

It is fair to say Urdu crime fiction was slower off the post, not only compared to Bengali but also Hindi. Therefore, unless you are an aficionado, you don’t hear much about it. Naim’s book is almost ...

It is an interesting fact that like our own Vidyapati (1352 A.D.-1448 A.D.), who is claimed by the enthusiasts of Maithili, Bengali and Odia languages, Rumi too is claimed by both the Persian and ...

"And even those were college or school-going children who want their study books." Urdu, sharing Hindi's roots and mingled with words from Persian and Arabic, emerged as a hybrid speech between ...

“But whoever has roots here, be they speakers of Bangla, Urdu, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Purbali, Khotta, Maithili or a variety of other dialects, Bangla Pokkho stands for them and their rights… ...

A typical 'Musalmani' Bengali book (a five-page folio) was likely to have 31.74 percent of the words from Perso-Arabic descent, compared to 40 percent Persian words in an Urdu ghazal, according to ...

If you are a native English speaker, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Korean are the toughest languages to learn - taking an average of 2200 hours to reach a certain proficiency level. In comparison ...