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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India, Pakistan

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

40
Rank: 29 (Overall)
German
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)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

104.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.99 %
Rank: 20 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

61.00 million
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

43.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Finnish
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)
Chinese
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

Origin of Urdu language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Urdu language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Urdu language states that it was put to use in 12th Century CE. The history of Urdu language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Urdu Language History. Urdu has no early forms. Modern Standard Urdu is the standard form of Urdu language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Urdu Language.

Urdu population

Urdu population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Urdu language. Urdu language is spoken by 104.00 million people in the world. Most of the Urdu population lies in the Urdu Speaking Countries. Urdu language is spoken as first language by 61.00 million people and as second language by about 43.00 million people. Get to know Urdu speaking population in detail.

Urdu writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Urdu writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Urdu language. Some languages share common writing systems. Arabic script is used by Urdu language. Learn more about . 

Information about Urdu language

Check out all the information about Urdu language here. You may find it interesting to learn Urdu Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Urdu Speaking Countries, Urdu speaking continents and Urdu Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Urdu countries knowing common Urdu Greetings will help you in communicating with Urdu people.