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Countries

Countries

India
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

India
Pakistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • 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

Old German Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages

Derived From

Prakrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5252
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3640
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
خوش آمديد

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
آپ کا شکریہ

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
گڈ نائٹ

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
سلام علیکم

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
گڈ آفٹر نون

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
گڈ مارننگ

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
براہ مہربانی

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
معاف کرنا

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
الوداع

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
مجھے تم سے محبت

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
معاف کیجئے گا

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Dakhini

Where They Speak

-
India

How Many People Speak

140,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Hyderabadi Urdu

Where They Speak

-
India

How Many People Speak

140,000.0069,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Rekhta

Where They Speak

-
South Asia

How Many People Speak

140,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

03
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million104.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million61.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-43.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
اُردُو

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Bihari

French Name

sanskrit
ourdou

German Name

Sanskrit
Urdu

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ˈʊrd̪u]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Urdu-speaking people

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
12th Century CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Modern Standard Urdu

Language Position

2320
1 120
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Signed Forms

-
Signed Urdu

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
ur

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
urd

ISO 639 2/B

san
urd

ISO 639 3

san
urd

ISO 639 6

san
urd

Glottocode

sans1269
urdu1245

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Sanskrit and Urdu Alphabets

Sanskrit and Urdu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Urdu. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Urdu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Urdu languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Urdu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Urdu are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sanskrit and Urdu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sanskrit and Urdu dialects. Various dialects of Sanskrit and Urdu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sanskrit are spoken in different Sanskrit Speaking Countries whereas Urdu Dialects are spoken in different Urdu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sanskrit vs Urdu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Urdu dialects include: Dakhini , Hyderabadi Urdu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sanskrit and Urdu Speaking population

Sanskrit and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sanskrit and Urdu on Sanskrit vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Urdu Language Codes

Sanskrit and Urdu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sanskrit and Urdu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.