Talk:Persian and Urdu

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How can you have a hybrid of 3 unrelated language? persian Arabic and Turkish? it's impossible. Urdu is Indo-Aryan derived from Sanskrit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.227.68.85 (talk) 02:15, 1 August 2011 (UTC)


 * First, mixed languages do exist, even if clear examples are rare. Second, this article does not claim that Urdu descends from Persian, Arabic or Turkish, merely that there are many borrowings from these languages in Urdu. Of course, Urdu is Indo-Aryan; the influence from Persian (etc.) is merely lexical. That said, there are highly Persianate registers of Urdu, taken to extremes in Qaumi Tarana, which can be described with some justification as factually "hybrid" in some sense, even if Urdu is not recognised as a genuine mixed language, pidgin or creole. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:33, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Should be part of Urdu Article
Shouldn't this article be merged into the Urdu article, or perhaps the Hindi-Urdu page (as it could help differentiate the Hindi and Urdu registers)? It is a very short article and not easy to find; most people interested in the influence of Persian on Urdu (which is what this article is about) would naturally go to the Urdu page. I am not trying to start a flame war and apologize if this has been discussed before (but if so I do not see it in the talk page). Cheers, Dave (djkernen)|Talk to me|Please help! 14:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree that this article's content should be merged into the Urdu article. It could be a good article on its own if it was more fleshed out, but since that hasn't been done in 10+ years, it would be more useful for this to be a section in the Urdu article Havoc219 (talk) 03:16, 2 February 2023 (UTC)