Despite their proximity and the absence of a language barrier -- Hindustani, an amalgam of Hindi and Urdu, is understood by both north Indians and Pakistanis -- only 1.2% of Pakistan's exports go to India, while the import tally is a mere 0.7%.

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More than half of the graduate students who study less-commonly taught languages (such as Hindi, Indonesian and Farsi) and 78% of those who study the least-common languages such as Pashto and Urdu do so at Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.

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