URDU
Map of the subcontinent showing areas where Urdu is official or co-official. Urdu specifically is official or co-official (in India) Urdu is neither official nor co-official
Origins
In the Delhi region of India the native language was Khariboli, whose earliest form is known as Old Hindi (or Hindavi).
It belongs to the Western Hindi group of the Central Indo-Aryan languages.
The contact of Hindu and Muslim cultures during the period of Islamic conquests in the Indian subcontinent (12th to 16th centuries) led to the development of Hindustani as a product of a composite Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.
Etymology
The name Urdu was first used by the poet Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi around 1780 for Hindustani language[25][26] even though he himself also used Hindavi term in his poetry to define the language.[27]
Ordu means army in the Turkic languages.
In late 18th century, it was known as Zaban-e-Urdu-e-Mualla زبانِ اُرْدُوئے مُعَلّٰی means language of the exalted camp.[28][29][30]
Earlier it was known as Hindvi, Hindi and Hindustani.[26][31]
Urdu, like Hindi, is a form of Hindustani language.
Some linguists have suggested that the earliest forms of Urdu evolved from the medieval (6th to 13th century) Apabhraṃśa register of the preceding Shauraseni language, a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is also the ancestor of other modern Indo-Aryan languages