Urdu
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| Urdu | |
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| اردو | |
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| Pronunciation | Hindustani: [ˈʊrd̪u] |
| Spoken natively in | Pakistan, Indie, Bangladesh ("Bihari"), Nepal[1] |
| Native speakers |
66 million (2007)[2] Tot (includin Hindi): 490 million (2010)[4] |
| Leid faimlie | |
| Writin seestem | Arabic (Urdu alphabet [Nastaʿlīq]) Devanagari Urdu Braille |
| Offeecial status | |
| Offeecial leid in |  Pakistan Indie (states o Jammu an Kashmir,Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi) |
| Regulatit by | Naitional Leid Authority (Pakistan); Naitional Cooncil for Promotion o Urdu Leid[6] (Indie) |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ur |
| ISO 639-2 | urd |
| ISO 639-3 | urd |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAF-q (wi Hindi, includin 58 varieties: 59-AAF-qaa tae 59-AAF-qil) |
Auries where Urdu is offeecial or cooffeecial
(Ither) auries where Hindi is offeecial
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Urdu /ˈʊərduː/ (Urdu: اُردُو, Urdū, pronounced [ʊrˈd̪u] (
listen)) is the heidmaist leid that is spak in Pakistan. It is in mony weys seemilar tae Hindi whan spak (the twa is mutually intelligable) it haes a deeferent alphabet that's taen frae Arabic. There's 60-80 million native speakers, an 160 million tot.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition, Urdu". Ethnologue. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
- ↑ Katsiavriades, Qureshi, Kryss, Talaat. "The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World". Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ↑ "A Guide to Urdu". BBC. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hindustani (2005). Keith Brown, ed. Encyclopedie o Leid an Linguistics (2 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-044299-4.
- ↑ "National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language". Urducouncil.nic.in. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
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