Countries
India, Pakistan
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Norway
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Europe, South America
Minority Language
India
Nynorsk
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5229
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4020
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
hallo
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
takk
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
god natt
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
god kveld
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
god morgen
Please
براہ مہربانی
Vær så snill
Sorry
معاف کرنا
unnskyld
Bye
الوداع
ha det
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
India
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Sognamål
Where They Speak
India
Sogn
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
South Asia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
Norsk
Alternative Names
Bihari
Norsk
French Name
ourdou
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Urdu
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Norwegians
Origin
12th Century CE
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2018
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ur
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
nor
ISO 639 2/B
urd
nor
ISO 639 3
urd
nor
ISO 639 6
urd
nor
Glottocode
urdu1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional