Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Nepal
Second Language
Pakistan
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4036
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good afternoon
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
براہ مہربانی
कृपया
Sorry
معاف کرنا
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
الوداع
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Doteli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
India
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
South Asia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
ourdou
népalais
German Name
Urdu
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
12th Century CE
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Nepali
Language Position
2059
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ur
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
nep
ISO 639 2/B
urd
nep
ISO 639 3
urd
npi
ISO 639 6
urd
nep
Glottocode
urdu1245
nepa1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative