1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
61.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall) ▶
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
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