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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India, Pakistan

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Pakistan

1.4 Second Language

Pakistan

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania

1.6 Minority Language

India

1.7 Regulated By

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Arabic and Hindi Languages

1.10 Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

40
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Arabic

2.5 Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

خوش آمديد

3.2 Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ

3.3 How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟

3.4 Good Night

گڈ نائٹ

3.5 Good Evening

سلام علیکم

3.6 Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون

3.7 Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ

3.8 Please

براہ مہربانی

3.9 Sorry

معاف کرنا

3.10 Bye

الوداع

3.11 I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت

3.12 Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Dakhini

4.1.1 Where They Speak

India

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu

4.2.1 Where They Speak

India

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Rekhta

4.3.1 Where They Speak

South Asia

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

104.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

61.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

43.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

اُردُو

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Bihari

5.3.4 French Name

ourdou

5.3.5 German Name

Urdu

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]

5.5 Ethnicity

Not Available

6 History

6.1 Origin

12th Century CE

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu

6.3.3 Language Position

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Urdu

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ur

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

urd

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

urd

7.3 ISO 639 3

urd

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

urdu1245

7.6 Linguasphere

59-AAF-q

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Urdu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Urdu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Urdu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Urdu. Urdu phonology gives Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. There are 10 vowels and 40 consonants in Urdu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Urdu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Urdu language is given in detail in this section.

All Urdu countries

Want to explore all Urdu countries? About Urdu language serves you with all Urdu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Urdu as official language are called as Urdu countries.

  • Countries that use Urdu as their National Language are: Pakistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Urdu as second language are: Pakistan.

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Learn Urdu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Urdu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Urdu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Urdu language.Learn Urdu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: خوش آمديد
  • Thank you: آپ کا شکریہ
  • Good Morning: گڈ مارننگ
  • Good Evening: سلام علیکم
  • Good Afternoon: گڈ آفٹر نون

All Urdu Language Codes

Get to know all Urdu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Urdu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.