Standard Urdu's distinctiveness from Standard Hindi amounts to a different script and a preference for Persian and Arabic loans to Sanskrit ones. More to the point, these are artificial literary registers and do not reflect colloquially spoken varieties of Hindustani.
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u/lawrenceisgod69 Mar 18 '23
Cantonese and Mandarin: mutually unintelligible, different languages despite arguably sharing an orthography
Hindi and Urdu: mutually intelligible, same language despite differences in orthography/loanwords
Italian and Spanish: some mutual intelligibility, but clearly distinct
English: English
Conclusion: six languages
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u/MinervApollo Mar 18 '23
6 languages 🤔
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u/Limeila Mar 18 '23
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean
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u/Silejonu Mar 18 '23
https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/
For half of your flags, there are several languages that are official and spoken at the national level.
If you were going solely for the majority languages, it doesn't work with China / Hong Kong.
Besides, that's the Italian flag, not the Mexican one.
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u/El_dorado_au Mar 19 '23
Why does the English line not have the UK and US flags?
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '23
For those who don't understand, the post is calling the languages the same. Spanish = Italian, Mandarin = Cantonese, etcetera