Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Pakistan
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
India
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
خوش آمديد
  
سلام
  
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
براہ مہربانی
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
معاف کرنا
  
متاسف
  
Bye
الوداع
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Dakhini
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Rekhta
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
South Asia
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
  
15
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
61.00 million
  
19
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
  
14
Not Available
  
Native Name
اُردُو
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Bihari
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
ourdou
  
persan
  
German Name
Urdu
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Persian people
  
Origin
12th Century CE
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ur
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
urd
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
urd
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
urd
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
urdu1245
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Urdu and Persian Speaking population
Urdu and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Urdu and Persian on Urdu vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Urdu and Persian Language Codes
Urdu and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.