Countries
India, Pakistan
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Turkey
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5229
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4021
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Merhaba
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Nasılsın?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Tünaydın
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
günaydın
Please
براہ مہربانی
lütfen
Sorry
معاف کرنا
üzgünüm
Bye
الوداع
Hoşçakal
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
India
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
India
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Gagauz
Where They Speak
South Asia
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Bihari
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
ourdou
turc
German Name
Urdu
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Turkish
Origin
12th Century CE
c. 1350
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Turkic
Branch
Indic
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2019
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
tur
ISO 639 2/B
urd
tur
ISO 639 3
urd
tur
ISO 639 6
urd
tur
Glottocode
urdu1245
nucl1301
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic