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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1.3 National Language
Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
1.6 Minority Language
India
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
1.9 Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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52
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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40
Rank: 29 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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4
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
خوش آمديد
3.2 Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
3.3 How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
3.4 Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
3.5 Good Evening
سلام علیکم
3.6 Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
3.7 Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
3.8 Please
براہ مہربانی
3.9 Sorry
معاف کرنا
3.10 Bye
الوداع
3.11 I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
3.12 Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Dakhini
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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11,000,000.00
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4.2 Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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4.3 Dialect 3
Rekhta
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Asia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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104.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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61.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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43.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
اُردُو
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bihari
5.3.4 French Name
ourdou
5.3.5 German Name
Urdu
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
12th Century CE
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ur
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
urd
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
urd
7.3 ISO 639 3
urd
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
urdu1245
7.6 Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

Know Alphabets in Urdu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Urdu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Urdu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Urdu. Urdu phonology gives Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. There are 10 vowels and 40 consonants in Urdu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Urdu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Urdu language is given in detail in this section.

All Urdu countries

Want to explore all Urdu countries? About Urdu language serves you with all Urdu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Urdu as official language are called as Urdu countries.

  • Countries that use Urdu as their National Language are: Pakistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Urdu as second language are: Pakistan.

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Learn Urdu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Urdu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Urdu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Urdu language.Learn Urdu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: خوش آمديد
  • Thank you: آپ کا شکریہ
  • Good Morning: گڈ مارننگ
  • Good Evening: سلام علیکم
  • Good Afternoon: گڈ آفٹر نون

All Urdu Language Codes

Get to know all Urdu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Urdu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.