They did not share a native language until William Carey a white looking foreigner standardised Hindi based on Sanskrit
@shortstories Carrey was a missionary. All he did was translate the Bible into Hindi, among other languages.
Just another Jesus freak...
He had to standardise the Hindi language in order to translate the Bible into Hindi
Each village spoke a different version of Hindi so he had to study the history of Sanskrit to standardise the Hindi language in written form
Indians would not have had a stadardised Hindi language to communicate from one village to another without him
Basicly until a White Christian Missionary showed up they have not had a standardised language for hundreds or thousands of years
@meeper @shortstories Start at the beginning. And when you get to the end; stop.