India develops Urdu font, ‘dumps’ Pakistan's.

[AADHAAR]

That is debatable. The language has a similar construct - however Hindi employs sanskrit words and Urdu Employs words from a bunch of languages like Farsi, Arabic and a little from all regional languages of Pakistan... and Sanskrit words are kosher too - although uncommon and considered unsophisticated when spoken in a general setting - however in literary circles its normal.

The male and female of words is different in some cases too:

Urdu: Mera Imtihaan hai
Hindi: Meri Pariksha hai.

That's exactly why .. and above is a good example, why people who understand Hindi, understand Urdu, and vice versa.

But, English is entirely different.

English: It is my exam.

(unless you tweak your eyes, and start seeing similarities between "mera / meri" and "my" .. and rest everything is way too different).

And comparison with chinese or korean or japanese .. will be ludicrous to compare.

On the other hand, Punjabi is also sooo.. close to Hindi / Urudu:

Punjabi: Meri preeksha haigi.

And btw.. recently there was a famous hindi serial on DD, called "Imtihaan". Feel free to call in an "urdu serial", and you'll understand all of it completely, if you know urdu.

 

[Awesome]

That's exactly why .. and above is a good example, why people who understand Hindi, understand Urdu, and vice versa.

But, English is entirely different.

English: It is my exam.

(unless you tweak your eyes, and start seeing similarities between "mera / meri" and "my" .. and rest everything is way too different).

And comparison with chinese or korean or japanese .. will be ludicrous to compare.

On the other hand, Punjabi is also sooo.. close to Hindi / Urudu:

Punjabi: Meri preeksha haigi.

And btw.. recently there was a famous hindi serial on DD, called "Imtihaan". Feel free to call in an "urdu serial", and you'll understand all of it completely, if you know urdu.

Punjabi has even more variants:

Mera Imtihaan ay

South Punjabi: Meda Imtihaan ay

In general Urdu can use Pariksha as well - but its not common. I'm guessing vice versa is true for Hindi as well.

Rule of the thumb of Urdu is use what's easy and rolls off the tongue better.

 

[Manindra]

You are asking if RTI works there

No, I didn't expect right answer from him but I want to know how he , the so called Professional, know about his country.

 

[Spring Onion]

After 66 years good development.

Kindly share the font with us. We Pakistanis would love to promote any new font of Urdu .

by the way whats the name of the new font??