Countries
India, Pakistan
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Indonesia
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5227
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4021
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Halo
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
matur nuwun
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
piye kabare?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Sugeng énjing
Please
براہ مہربانی
matur nuwun
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
الوداع
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Cirebon
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Arekan
Where They Speak
South Asia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bihari
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
ourdou
javanais
German Name
Urdu
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
12th Century CE
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Javanese
Language Position
2011
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
jav
ISO 639 2/B
urd
jav
ISO 639 3
urd
jav
ISO 639 6
urd
jav
Glottocode
urdu1245
java1253
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative