Countries
India, Pakistan
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
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, Oceania
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Urdu
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5244
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4033
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
براہ مہربانی
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
الوداع
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Khariboli
Where They Speak
India
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Marwari
Where They Speak
India
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Bundeli
Where They Speak
South Asia
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Bihari
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
ourdou
hindi
German Name
Urdu
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Hindustani people
Origin
12th Century CE
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Hindi
Language Position
205
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
hin
ISO 639 2/B
urd
hin
ISO 639 3
urd
hin
ISO 639 6
urd
hins
Glottocode
urdu1245
hind1269
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic