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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Pakistan
Germany

Second Language

Pakistan
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania
Europe

Minority Language

India
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Arabic and Hindi Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

409
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

خوش آمديد
hallo

Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ
Danke

How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

گڈ نائٹ
gute Nacht

Good Evening

سلام علیکم
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون
guten Tag

Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ
guten Morgen

Please

براہ مہربانی
bitte

Sorry

معاف کرنا
Verzeihung

Bye

الوداع
Tschüs

I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dakhini
Swiss German

Where They Speak

India
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu
Swabian German

Where They Speak

India
Germany

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rekhta
Texas German

Where They Speak

South Asia
Texas

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

104.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

61.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

43.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

اُردُو
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Bihari
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

ourdou
allemand

German Name

Urdu
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Urdu-speaking people
Germans

History

Origin

12th Century CE
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Germanic

Branch

Indic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

209
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Urdu
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ur
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

urd
deu

ISO 639 2/B

urd
ger

ISO 639 3

urd
deu

ISO 639 6

urd
deus

Glottocode

urdu1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

59-AAF-q
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Urdu and German Alphabets

Urdu and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and German. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Urdu and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and German languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Urdu and German 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 Urdu and German dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Urdu and German Speaking population

Urdu and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and German languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 Urdu and German on Urdu vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and German Language Codes

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