The Hindustani or hindustānī is the name which until the beginning of the 20th century indicated the language of Hindustān, which will give the Hindi and the Ourdou.

With the Partition of the Indies in 1947, the two languages written with different alphabets, are considered, a little artificially, like different. The Urdu one and the Hindi actually form only one and even language, but the Hindi is written with the alphabet devanāgarī and the Urdu one with the Arabic alphabet in its alternative arabo-Persian. They currently diverge by their vocabulary, the Hindi having been depersianized and desarabized, and Urdu the desanskritized.

Official languages

• the Hindi is official language of the India.
• the Urdu one is official language of the Pakistan and Co-official in certain States of India (Āndhra Pradesh, Jammū and Kashmīr, Territoire of the national Capital of Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh.
• Hindustani is one of the official languages of Fiji. It is there primarily a spoken language, which justifies the maintenance of name, but can be written as well in Arab characters as in Devanāgarī.