Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
India
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4031
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
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 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
براہ مہربانی
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
الوداع
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
India
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Kharwa
Where They Speak
India
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Surati
Where They Speak
South Asia
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How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
ourdou
goudjrati
German Name
Urdu
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Gujaratis
Origin
12th Century CE
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Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
guj
ISO 639 2/B
urd
guj
ISO 639 3
urd
guj
ISO 639 6
urd
guj
Glottocode
urdu1245
guja1252
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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