Countries
India, Pakistan
West Java
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Indonesia
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.
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Madurese and Malay Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4016
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin, Sundanese
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks40 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Halo
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Nuhun
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Kumaha kabarna?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Wilujeng kulem
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Wilujeng wengi
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Wilujeng siang
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Wilujeng énjing
Please
براہ مہربانی
Mangga
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Hapunten
Bye
الوداع
Wilujeng angkat
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Punten
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Western dialect
Where They Speak
India
Banten
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0040,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Northern dialect
Where They Speak
India
Bogor
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0040,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Priangan dialect
Where They Speak
South Asia
Bandung
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0040,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million39.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Basa Sunda
Alternative Names
Bihari
Priangan, Sunda
French Name
ourdou
soundanais
German Name
Urdu
Sundanesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[sʊnˈdæniːs]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Origin
12th Century CE
5th century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Sundanese
Language Position
2042
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Sundanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
su
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
sun
ISO 639 2/B
urd
sun
ISO 639 3
urd
sun
ISO 639 6
urd
sun
Glottocode
urdu1245
sund1251
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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