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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782507903321

Autore

Khan Abdul Jamil

Titolo

Urdu/Hindi : an artificial divide / / Abdul Jamil Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York  : , : Algora Publishing, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-39564-1

0-87586-439-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages)

Collana

The politics of language Urdu/Hindi

Disciplina

491.4'3--dc22

Soggetti

Urdu language - History

Urdu language - Classification

Hindi language - History

Hindi language - Classification

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Abbreviations; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Illustrations; Chapter I. Mesopotamian Roots and Language Classification; Chapter II. Phonetics, Linguistics and Genetics - DNA; Chapter III. Middle East: Source of Semitic, Dravidian and Indo-European/Sanskrit; Chapter IV. Austric-Munda-Dravidian and Oldest Hindi/Urdu; Chapter V. Sanskrit-Prakrit and Old-Urdu/Hindi; Chapter VI. Arabic-Persian: New Substrates from the Middle East; Chapter VII. Language of Saints and Sultans; Chapter VIII. Secular Moghuls and Secular Language

Chapter IX. Urdu: Official Language of British India Chapter X. Hindi's Creator: British Bengal; Chapter XI. Partition of Language, Land, and Hearts; Chapter XII. Urdu through the 20th Century; Chapter XIII. Hindi's Evolution through the 20th Century; Chapter XIV. Urdu/Hindi: A Show Biz Power; Chapter XV. Urdu/Hindi of America and the World; Chapter XVI. Urdu/Hindi Scripts: Common Origin; Chapter XVII. Mesopotamian Realism and Re-Classification; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Divide and Rule: the British imperial authorities in India declared that the Urdu spoken by the Muslims and the Hindi spoken by the Hindus were two distinct languages, but linguistic evolution theory and studies in fossil linguistics of the Middle East sh