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.

Urdu Language

Urdu historically spelled “Ordu” is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian, Arabic and Turkic influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of native speakers, among all languages. It is the national language of Pakistan. There are 60,503,579 people speaking Urdu language on World total basis.

 Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardized form of Hindustani. The main difference between the Hindi and Urdu is that Standard Urdu is written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Per so-Arabic script and some words are taken from Persian and Arabic, while Standard Hindi is written in Devanagari and has inherited significant vocabulary from Sanskrit. 

Linguists therefore consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language. Because of Urdu is slightly similar to Hindi, speakers of the two languages can usually understand one another, if both sides refrain from using specialized vocabulary. Indeed, linguists sometimes count them as being part of the same Genetic language. Urdu and Hindi are socio-politically different, and people who self-describe as being speakers of Hindi would question their being counted as native speakers of Urdu and vice-versa.

Introduction of Urdu Language

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, was created around the 1600’s in Central Asia. The word Urdu comes from the Turkish word ‘ordu’ means ‘camp’ or ‘army’. It was entirely used as a unifying communication tool between the Muslims soldiers during their conquest of Ancient India and Eastern Persia. These soldiers were of Persian, Arab, or Turkish descent. The majority of these soldiers are of Persian origin

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They directly affected the language to be used between them. It is the language of the government dominated earlier on was Farsi, but eventually changed to Urdu to accommodate the other races. It is the fact that; Urdu vocabulary contains approximately 60%Farsi and the rest being a mixture of Arab and Turkish languages.

The grammar takes some elements from the Farsi and Arabic languages but also has elements that are unique and different from all three of its mother tongues. In current time, many Urdu speakers have adopted many English and Hindi terms following the effects of globalization and success of Indian film industry, in Pakistan.

The linguistic status of Urdu and Hindi has been the subject of fierce debate. Some argue treated as the same language; others that they should be treated separately on the grounds of differences in vocabulary and word order.