Countries
India, Pakistan
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Israel
Second Language
Pakistan
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
India
Poland
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Academy of the Hebrew 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 original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5222
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
100
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4022
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
براہ مہربانی
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
الوداع
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
India
Israel
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
India
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
South Asia
Israel
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
ourdou
hébreu
German Name
Urdu
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
12th Century CE
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
2023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
heb
ISO 639 2/B
urd
heb
ISO 639 3
urd
heb
ISO 639 6
urd
heb
Glottocode
urdu1245
hebr1246
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic