Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Pakistan
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1024
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4023
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
براہ مہربانی
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
الوداع
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Mandarin
Where They Speak
India
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Wu
Where They Speak
India
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Yue
Where They Speak
South Asia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
ourdou
chinois
German Name
Urdu
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Han
Origin
12th Century CE
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Chinese
Language Position
201
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
zho
ISO 639 2/B
urd
chi
ISO 639 3
urd
zho
ISO 639 6
urd
zho
Glottocode
urdu1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating