Pure Hindi has been derived from Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages in India (Sanskrit, along with Telugu and Tamil being the oldest ones I believe). But Sanskrit has been undergoing a demise, because not a lot of work has been done on it over centuries. Hence, Hindi has been undergoing a similar demise. feel that Hindi is a better description of the syncretic language as it simply means ‘of India’. Of course, in Pakistan, that may not go down too well. Urdu, on the other hand, literally means military camp and the word by itself does not give one a clue as to where it is from.