To what extent are Hindi and Urdu the same language on the base of their vocabularies?

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320074
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: MACHIDA Kazuhiko 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (70134749)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIKAMI Yoshiki 長岡技術科学大学, 工学系研究科, 教授 (70293264) ; HAGITA Hiroshi 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (80143618) ; MAMIYA Kensaku 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 准教授 (00403204)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ヒンディー語 / ウルドゥー語 / 語彙

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to make clear to what extent Hindi and Urdu languages differ from each other from the etymological viewpoint of the vocabulary the respective languages contain.
The output of the investigation shows that both languages do not differ in most frequent words, consisting of modern Indo-Aryan words and a few Persian loanwords, occupying more than 80 percent of total running words, contrary to anticipation.

Free Research Field

言語学