Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
India
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5252
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
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
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
براہ مہربانی
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
الوداع
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Not present
Where They Speak
South Asia
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How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
30
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
ourdou
sanskrit
German Name
Urdu
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
12th Century CE
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Sanskrit
Language Position
2023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
san
ISO 639 2/B
urd
san
ISO 639 3
urd
san
ISO 639 6
urd
san
Glottocode
urdu1245
sans1269
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic