Conversion between Hindi and Urdu

Hindi is often contrasted with Urdu. Hindi is written in devanāgarī and most of its vocabulary has been originated from Sanskrit. Urdu is written using Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and majority of the vocabulary has evolved from Arabic and Persian. This paper discusses the similarities and dissimilarities between Hindi and Urdu languages. This paper delineates the issues in simple transliteration of Hindi to Urdu or vice versa. The paper presents the effect of differences in spellings, pronunciation and writing style on conversion. The paper lists the issues and solution to these issues which make conversion between Hindi to Urdu or Urdu to Hindi more than just simple transliteration.