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Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Pakistan

Second Language
Pakistan

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language
India

Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan

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.

Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages

Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
52 31

Phonology

How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
40 29

Scripts
Arabic

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
خوش آمديد

Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ

How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟

Good Night
گڈ نائٹ

Good Evening
سلام علیکم

Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون

Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ

Please
براہ مہربانی

Sorry
معاف کرنا

Bye
الوداع

I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت

Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا

Dialects

Dialect 1
Dakhini

Where They Speak
India

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00 36

Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu

Where They Speak
India

How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00 12

Dialect 3
Rekhta

Where They Speak
South Asia

How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00 11

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
104.00 million 15

Speaking Population
0.99 % 21

Native Speakers
61.00 million 19

Second Language Speakers
43.00 million 20

Native Name
اُردُو

Alternative Names
Bihari

French Name
ourdou

German Name
Urdu

Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]

Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people

History

Origin
12th Century CE

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian

Branch
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu

Language Position
20 18

Signed Forms
Signed Urdu

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ur

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
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ISO 639 2/B
urd

ISO 639 3
urd

ISO 639 6
urd

Glottocode
urdu1245

Linguasphere
59-AAF-q

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

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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.

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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.

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