Countries
India, Pakistan
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4020
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
خوش آمديد
您好
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
谢谢
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
你好吗？
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
晚安
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
晚上好
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
下午好
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
早上好
Please
براہ مہربانی
请
Sorry
معاف کرنا
遗憾
Bye
الوداع
再见
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
我爱你
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
原谅我
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
India
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Xiguan
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
South Asia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bihari
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
ourdou
cantonais
German Name
Urdu
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Han Chinese
Origin
12th Century CE
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
201
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ur
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
yue
ISO 639 2/B
urd
yue
ISO 639 3
urd
No data available
ISO 639 6
urd
yue
Glottocode
urdu1245
cant1236
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-