Urdu and [[Hindi]] are mutually intelligible and many linguists consider them to be dialects of the same language, rather than two separate languages. In addition, Hindi is written with a syllabic alphabet descended from [[Sanskrit]], while Urdu is written in a modified form of the Arabic script. | Urdu and [[Hindi]] are mutually intelligible and many linguists consider them to be dialects of the same language, rather than two separate languages. In addition, Hindi is written with a syllabic alphabet descended from [[Sanskrit]], while Urdu is written in a modified form of the Arabic script. |