The poisonous potency of script
Hindi and Urdu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D King (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 2001 |
| Issue | 150 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl.2001.035 |
| OpenAlex | W2017728646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 2 |
Hindi and Urdu are variants of the same language characterized by extreme digraphia: Hindi is written in the Devanagari script from left to right, Urdu in a script derived from a Persian modi®cation of Arabic script written from right to left. High variants of Hindi look to Sanskrit for inspiration and linguistic enrichment, high variants of Urdu to Persian and Arabic. Hindi and Urdu diverge from each other cumulatively, mostly in vocabulary, as one moves from the bazaar to the higher realms, and in their highest Ð and therefore most arti®cial Ð forms the two languages are mutually incomprehensible. The battle between Hindi and Urdu, the graphemic con ̄ict in particular, was a major ̄ash point of Hindu/Muslim
Biology · Hindi · Linguistics · Potency · Urdu · History · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Genetics
Psycholinguistics of writing
History of writing
A note on fonts
Mixed systems
The basic options
Signs of segments
Sociolinguistics of writing
Vowel incorporation
Appendix
Signs of words
Analysis and interpretation
Signs of syllables
Consonants and vowels
What is writing?
Writing Systems
Introduction – South Asian diasporas and the BBC World Service
Questions of language in the commonwealth censuses
The commonwealth censuses
Tai Dam orthographies
Variation in Perso-Arabic and Devanāgarī Sindhī orthographies
Scripts on Linguistic Landscapes
Mobilising language, imagining region
The language of suppression
Urdu in Devanagari
Of Nation and State
Intralingual translation as performance of identity
Graphic politics in Eastern India
"Language of power or "fringe language
Writing it in English’
Less Human Than Human
On mother and other tongues
Scripting a new identity
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |