Development of Urdu

Urdu is one of the most beneficent and spoken languages in the Indian subcontinent. All communities over the world speak Urdu. In total more than 4 million people, speak the Urdu language. Several factors lead to the development of Urdu language. The most important of all the factors are given below.

(1)    Development of Urdu by speaking

The Urdu language was developed among the soldiers of the British Army who belonged to different nations. The word Urdu itself means ‘Army’. To communicate with each other bitterly, these soldiers used to speak in an amalgam of Persian, Arabic and Turkish languages.

Actually the language was easier than the Persian language. So the Royal also liked the Urdu language. Back to the several years Urdu become one of the trendiest things and the Hindu population started to speak it, by including many Sanskrit words to the language.

(2)     Development of Urdu through poetry

The Royal of the India subcontinent were very interested in the poetry. Amir Khusro was the first man who attempts the Urdu poetry in the 13^th century in the 18^th and 19^th century, poets gave a major boost to the Urdu Poetry.

(3)     Development of Urdu through prose

Unlike the Urdu poetry, Urdu short stories or novel did not become a trend. However, after the decline of Mughals and in the era of the British, a very intelligent man writes an Urdu novel. The name of the man was Deputy Nazir Ahmed and the name of the novel is Mirat ul Uroos. Despite the fact that it was the first novel of Urdu, the novel became a huge success.

In fact, if it were not for the Urdu poetry and prose, the people of subcontinent might not had realized their worth and fought to drive the British out of the subcontinent.