Countries
India, Pakistan
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5237
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4046
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Mhoro
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Waita zvako
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Manheru
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Masikati
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Mangwanani
Please
براہ مہربانی
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Ndineurombo
Bye
الوداع
bye
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Hwesa
Where They Speak
India
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Karanga
Where They Speak
India
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Zezuru
Where They Speak
South Asia
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
chiShona
Alternative Names
Bihari
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
ourdou
shona
German Name
Urdu
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Shona people
Origin
12th Century CE
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Indic
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Shona
Language Position
20107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
sna
ISO 639 2/B
urd
sna
ISO 639 3
urd
sna
ISO 639 6
urd
sna
Glottocode
urdu1245
core1255
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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