Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
India, Nepal
Second Language
Pakistan
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4022
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
pranam
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
dhanyabad
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Śubharātri
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Suprabhaat
Please
براہ مہربانی
kripaya
Sorry
معاف کرنا
maf karai
Bye
الوداع
Alavidā
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
kripaya
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Madhubani
Where They Speak
India
North India
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Khortha
Where They Speak
South Asia
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
ourdou
maithili
German Name
Urdu
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Maithil
Origin
12th Century CE
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2040
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
mai
ISO 639 2/B
urd
mai
ISO 639 3
urd
mai
ISO 639 6
urd
mai
Glottocode
urdu1245
mait1250
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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