Countries
India, Pakistan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa, 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
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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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4019
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Bwakeye
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Urakoze
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Urakomeye?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Mwaramutse
Please
براہ مہربانی
Ndagusavye
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Ndasubiza
Bye
الوداع
N’agasaga
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
India
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Ha
Where They Speak
India
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Shubi
Where They Speak
South Asia
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bihari
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
ourdou
rundi
German Name
Urdu
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
12th Century CE
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Kirundi
Language Position
2086
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
ur
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
run
ISO 639 2/B
urd
run
ISO 639 3
urd
run
ISO 639 6
urd
run
Glottocode
urdu1245
rund1242
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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