Countries
India, Pakistan
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Bulgaria
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
India
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5230
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4036
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
خوش آمديد
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
براہ مہربانی
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
الوداع
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
India
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
India
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Pirdop
Where They Speak
South Asia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Balgarski
French Name
ourdou
bulgare
German Name
Urdu
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Bulgarian people
Origin
12th Century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Indic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2088
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
bul
ISO 639 2/B
urd
bul
ISO 639 3
urd
bul
ISO 639 6
urd
buls
Glottocode
urdu1245
bulg1262
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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