Countries
India, Pakistan
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Japan
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
India
Palau
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5299
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4014
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Kana
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
براہ مہربانی
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
الوداع
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Sanuki
Where They Speak
India
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Hakata
Where They Speak
India
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Kansai
Where They Speak
South Asia
kansai
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
日本語
Alternative Names
Bihari
Nihongo
French Name
ourdou
japonais
German Name
Urdu
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
12th Century CE
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Japanese
Language Position
208
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
urd
jpn
ISO 639 3
urd
jpn
ISO 639 6
urd
jpn
Glottocode
urdu1245
nucl1643
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic