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Are Persian and Hindi mutually intelligible?
No, neither are Persian and Urdu mutually intelligible, neither are Hindi and Sanskrit.
Is Persian close to Hindi?
Not very similar, but related, Also, Hindi has borrowed many Persian words as well as Arabic words via Persian, though in modern Hindi they try to use Sanskrit words instead.
Is Sanskrit mutually intelligible in Hindi?
No. There is Sanskrit Vocabulary in Hindi but they are totally different languages.
Can Persian speakers understand Hindi?
No, they can’t understand spoken Hindi. But, there are so many loanwords in Hindi/Urdu from Persian.
Is Hindi mutually intelligible with other languages in India?
Answer Wiki. Hindi is mutually intelligible with languages like Bhojpuri, Marwari to a large extent. Most of the languages coming under ‘Hindi belt’ are closely related and it won’t be a wonder if these languages disappear in the near future due to the dominance of Hindi. Punjabi and Hindi can also be considered fairly mutually intelligible.
Why is it so difficult to learn Sanskrit in the south?
It is the Persian, Arabic and distorted Sanskrit words in Hindi that makes it difficult for Southern languages to learn in contrast to learning Sanskrit words which are easy to learn for them because they are already present in their languages.
Can Hindi be used to subvert Bharatiya Samskriti?
But Hindi is a loose language which can be easily used to subvert Bharatiya Samskrti. It indeed happened when Bollywood used it as a vehicle to promote Arabic and Persian words all over India including in the South.
Why are there so many Arabic words in North India?
North India was fully dominated by Islamic Invaders and filled all north Indian languages with Arabic words (and Persian words too, as Islamic invaders came passing through Persia).