Countries
India, Pakistan
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
South Africa
Second Language
Pakistan
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
India
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1010
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4043
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Molo
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Unjani
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Molo
Please
براہ مہربانی
Ndicela
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
الوداع
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Thembu
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Hlubi
Where They Speak
South Asia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Bihari
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
ourdou
xhosa
German Name
Urdu
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
12th Century CE
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
isiXhosa
Language Position
2021
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
xho
ISO 639 2/B
urd
xho
ISO 639 3
urd
xho
ISO 639 6
urd
xho
Glottocode
urdu1245
xhos1239
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
99-AUT-fa
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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