Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
India
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
Please
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
Bye
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
I love you
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
104.00 million
  
15
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
English
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bihari
  
French Name
anglais
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
12th Century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional