<P> Linguistically, Hindi and Urdu are two registers of the same language and are mutually intelligble . Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and uses more Sanskrit words, whereas Urdu is written in the Perso - Arabic script and uses more Arabic and Persian words . Hindi is the most commonly used official language in India . Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is one of 22 official languages of India . </P> <P> The splitting of Hindi and Urdu into separate languages is largely motivated by politics, namely the Indo - Pakistani rivalry . </P> <P> Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, an abugida . Devanagari consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is written from left to right . Unlike for Sanskrit, Devanagari is not entirely phonetic for Hindi, especially failing to mark schwa dropping in spoken Standard Hindi . </P> <P> The Government of India uses Hunterian transliteration as its official system of writing Hindi in the Latin script . Various other systems also exist, such as IAST, ITRANS and ISO 15919 . </P>

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