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Re:Languages of India by jfk13 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:16PM (#20109699)
In school, perhaps so. But looking at something like https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اردو, there's scarcely more than a handful of short vowel marks (zabar, zer, pesh, or fatha, kasra, damma as an Arabic speaker would call them) anywhere on the page; the vast majority are left unwritten.
Re:Languages of India by owaislone on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:29PM (#20109788)
While I'm not 100% sure, I think it _might_ be the case of writing Urdu online vs on paper. I'll try to grab an Urdu book or newspaper tomorrow and see how it is written. Thanks for the insight, this was very interesting.
Re:Languages of India by selimthegrim on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @08:35PM (#20110477)
If you look at say Jang, you will almost never see the diacritics except maybe in headlines