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owaislone on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Languages of India

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.

selimthegrim on June 6, 2019 [–]

If you look at say Jang, you will almost never see the diacritics except maybe in headlines

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