Countries
India, Pakistan
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Philippines
Second Language
Pakistan
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
India
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5225
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4018
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
خوش آمديد
Kamusta
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Salamat po
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Magandang umaga po
Please
براہ مہربانی
pakiusap
Sorry
معاف کرنا
pinagsisisihan
Bye
الوداع
Paálam
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
India
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Bisalog
Where They Speak
India
Philippines
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Filipino
Where They Speak
South Asia
Philippines
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Bihari
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
ourdou
tagalog
German Name
Urdu
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Tagalog people
Origin
12th Century CE
1593
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Filipino
Language Position
2058
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
urd
tgl
ISO 639 3
urd
tg1
ISO 639 6
urd
tgl
Glottocode
urdu1245
taga1269
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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