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What's the difference between Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi

Apart from the written language what's the difference?
Urdu sounds better than all of them

(I can speak all 3 by the way)
(edited 7 years ago)
A lot of words are similar..likewise a lot of words are different.
Hindi and Urdu are quite similar but Urdu has more Arabic words and Hindi has more Sanskrit words. Grammar is shared in Hindi and Urdu.
Also Urdu is considered to be more posh.

There's Indian Punjabi which has more Hindi words and Pakistani Punjabi which has more Urdu words.

That's a very simplified comparison however.

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