I know that there are a few here from the subcontinent, and I need your help. I have been looking for a good site on Indian English to add to my References page. During the search, I found a page that contained something I would like to hear your views on:
Urdu, which is mostly the same language as Hindi, but written in Arabic instead of Devanagari letters, and with Arabic and Persian loanwords instead of Sanskrit, is the single largest language in Pakistan.


I have read elsewhere that Urdu (the language taught at my Dad's boarding school), is the official language of Pakistan, but not the largest, being spoken only by a smallish minority, the social elite there, and that Punjabi probably has the most speakers in Pakistan. The page, at http://snurl.com/1xg6 has some good information, but I want to be sure that I don't point to a page containing basic factual errors.

My experience of the way in which outsiders get Trans-Tasman English wrong makes me very keen to get links on subcontinental English from those who live there, if at all possible. Thanks




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