Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4021
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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
Henda ho
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Adi Johar
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
संध्यायान
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Boge Setak’
Please
براہ مہربانی
দয়া করে
Sorry
معاف کرنا
দুঃখিত
Bye
الوداع
Hariau
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Mahali
Where They Speak
India
India
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Not present
Where They Speak
South Asia
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How Many People Speak
69,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
ourdou
santal
German Name
Urdu
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
12th Century CE
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Santali
Language Position
2041
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
sat
ISO 639 2/B
urd
sat
ISO 639 3
urd
sat
ISO 639 6
urd
sat
Glottocode
urdu1245
sant1410
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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