Tuesday, February 1, 2011

About the Urdu Language


Urdu is the language of Indo-Aryan and 104 million people speak Urdu, also including the people who speak Urdu as a second language. The word Urdu is derived from Turkish language word “ordu”, which means “army”, camp”. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. It is most related to the Hindi language though most of the words of Urdu language are derived from the Persian and Arabic language. there are lots of countries in which people Urdu language, these are Pakistan, Afghanistan  Nepal, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, the UAE, the UK and Zambia, , Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Fiji, Germany, Guyana, India, Malawi, Mauritius.
These are the basic alphabets of Urdu language:

It was used as the best and unit way of communication between the soldiers during the occupation on the ancient India and east Persia. Because these soldiers were belong to the Arab, Persians and Turkish origin. Most of the soldiers were Persian so this is the language was dominating them before that Farsi was dominated language and the language of government. Finally it changed into the Urdu to overcome these differences. In spite of this fact that 70%t of the Urdu words came from the Persian, and other words are from Arabic, Turkish and it also have some of its own unique words. Urdu is the most polite, decent and more poetic language. 

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