Sunday, 15 September 2013

The jury is still out on when, where and how Urdu was born Urdu is a ‘lashkari zaban’ or ‘camp-language’

Urdu, the language that many love, is still without an authentic pedigree, so to speak. There are a myriad of theories as experts have been looking for Urdu’s roots and its origin for quite long. Some theories of Urdu’s origin seem quite plausible while a few are so flimsy that they can hardly be called ‘theory’.

Anyway, let’s glance briefly at some of them:

Is Urdu a camp language?

The oldest and probably the most misleading of the theories is the one that says Urdu is a

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