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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Facts about the Urdu Language

Urdu language is full of beauty and grace seems to have been custom-built for literature, prose and poetry. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and also widely spoken in India. Urdu by itself is the twentieth most popular language in the world.

Urdu is widely spoken today in sizeable countries including Nepal, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Tanzania, Zambia etc.
 Urdu is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words while its literature can also be used for exact and rational reasoning. It has absorbed both the native and non-native elements of writing in Arabic and Persian. Besides, it derives its words from Sanskrit.

Urdu is very similar to Hindi while speaking but both are totally different in writing form. It is written in the per sio-Arabic script, while Hindi follows the Sanskrit (Devnagri script) characters. It is a very flexible language and has adopted words from English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and others.

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