Countries
India, Pakistan
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
China
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5236
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4027
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
rakhmat
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
براہ مہربانی
birdam
Sorry
معاف کرنا
kachurung
Bye
الوداع
Khayr khosh
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Turpan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Hotan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
South Asia
China
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
ourdou
ouïgour
German Name
Urdu
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Uyghur
Origin
12th Century CE
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Uyghur
Language Position
2098
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ur
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
uig
ISO 639 2/B
urd
uig
ISO 639 3
urd
uig
ISO 639 6
urd
uig
Glottocode
urdu1245
uigh1240
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-