Countries
India, Pakistan
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Ethiopia
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4031
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Selam
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Dehina newot?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Dehna dur
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
i'ndemin adäru
Please
براہ مہربانی
i'bakwon
Sorry
معاف کرنا
aznallehu
Bye
الوداع
tschao
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Gondar
Where They Speak
India
Gondar
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Gojjami
Where They Speak
India
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Showa
Where They Speak
South Asia
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Bihari
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
ourdou
amharique
German Name
Urdu
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Amharas
Origin
12th Century CE
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Amharic
Language Position
2055
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
amh
ISO 639 2/B
urd
amh
ISO 639 3
urd
amh
ISO 639 6
urd
amh
Glottocode
urdu1245
amha1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional