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by afghanPower 3161 days ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Indians do understand "urdu", no?
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jfk13 3161 days ago
That may be the case for many people across the "Hindi belt" of northern India. (Hindi and Urdu, at an everyday level, being fairly close to a case of "same spoken language, different scripts".) In the Dravidian-speaking south....not so much.
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wizardofmysore 3161 days ago
No. People in the northern region would since it is similar to Hindi. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have their own language respectively which is different from Hindi and they wouldn't.

I am not certain about entire Andra and Telengana. People in Hyderabad speak Urdu.

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deanstag 3161 days ago
I think you might be talking about Hindi. That is the most common language.
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axiom92 3161 days ago
People with an understanding of Hindi should be able to understand everyday Urdu.
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sumedh 3161 days ago
Yes because most Indians can speak Hindi(Urdu is similar to Hindi). Hindi is the second or third language for many non native Hindi speakers.
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wizardofmysore 3161 days ago
Around 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.
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Manishearth 3159 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

No, by the 2001 census it's about 50% of Indians who do not speak Hindi.

I don't see a reason for this fraction to have changed significantly.

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ucntseeme 3161 days ago
That's still very less than the majority.
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