Talk:Rekhta

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Hindi is irrelevnt to this article. The word Rekhta itself is Persian and this terminology applies to Urdu and its Arabic-Persian based script. Szhaider 00:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your inquiry. Before, rewriting this article, I did some research on Rekhta. Along with being being the Persianisized version of Urdu, it also has other meanings. Rekhta was the name of the precursor of Hindi - Hindavi. This Hindavi was also known as Rekhta (literally "Rough mixture"). The word was then applied to Hindustani, the unstandarized version of Hindi and Urdu, which is written in both scripts. Rekhta is also considered a variant of Hindi (Ethnologue) and is listed as such in the Hindi article. In light of these facts, Devanagari is very relevant and will stay on this article. Also, for your information, I did not add the scripts. Kitabparast, a Pakistani, did. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 00:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)