Station
identification in Hindi: Ye Akashvani hai (pronounced heh)
meaning "This is All India Radio" Spoken in India and Pakistan.
Hindi and Urdu are fundamentally the same language but differ in their vocabulary sources, scripts, and religious traditions. These are the main languages of India and Pakistan (respectively).
Hindi vocabulary derives mainly from Sanskrit, while Urdu contains many borrowings from Farsi (Persian) and Arabic . Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and is spoken mainly by Hindus. Urdu is written in a Persian Arabic script and is spoken mainly by Muslims (in India as well as Pakistan).
The languages have a sing-song intonation with characteristic tongue-flapped consonants duh and tuh instead if de and te.
Station
identification in Hindi: Ye Akashvani hai (pronounced heh)
meaning "This is All India Radio"
Station
identification in Urdu: Ye Radio Pakistan hai meaning
"This is Radio Pakistan"
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Hindi | N & C China, Africa, Fiji, Surinam, Guyanas, India (Assam) | Indo-European (Indo-Iranian) | 130-200m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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