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Source: sarvesh

~90% of UP vocabulary comes from Sanskrit-Prakrit:

  • tatsama 25%
  • tadbhava 50%
  • deshaja 15%

The rest 10% are loan words, most of which modified to indigenize.

The number 90% is the estimate of a scholar who studied UP’s speech.

As per Urdu lexicographers like Rauf Parekh and Syed Ahmed Dehlavi, 99% of Urdu verbs and 75% of Urdu words come from Sanskrit and Prakrit.