Countries
India, Pakistan
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Philippines
Second Language
Pakistan
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4016
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Hoy
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Salamat
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Maayong Buntag
Please
براہ مہربانی
Palihug
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Ikasubo ko
Bye
الوداع
Babay
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Boholano
Where They Speak
India
Bohol
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
India
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
North Kana
Where They Speak
South Asia
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Visayan
Alternative Names
Bihari
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
ourdou
cebuano
German Name
Urdu
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Cebuano people
Origin
12th Century CE
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
2062
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
urd
ceb
ISO 639 3
urd
ceb
ISO 639 6
urd
ceb
Glottocode
urdu1245
cebu1242
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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