Monday, February 7, 2011

Roman Urdu: Flexibility of Urdu language

 
Urdu is a flexible language as compare to other languages.  Roman Urdu is written in Roman alphabets also called Latin alphabets. People are using Roman writing style on the wide range all over the world especially in the Eastern countries. 

Roman Urdu is commonly used by the internet and computer users; because of technology limitations mostly they are not providing the facility of Urdu script.  But now computer scientists are trying to develop Urdu softwares. Most of the news papers like Jang news have started Roman Urdu script. This is the facility for those people who cannot read the Arabic script. 

Most of the search engines like Yahoo, MSN and some chat-rooms are making good efforts in the development of Roman script. Roman Urdu script is most famous and used for the Urdu poetry and mobile sms. 

Many Christians of Karachi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and some other states of Pakistan and India they used the Urdu as a native language from the 20th century, and still they are using Urdu language. Now they mostly used Roman Urdu for Urdu script. Till 1960s Christian people were used Roman Urdu script and they translated their Divine book Bible in Roman Urdu script also. Nowadays Roman Urdu writing style is decreasing in Indian Christians due to the extensive usage of Hindi and English languages. Roman Urdu writing style gave more improvement to the Urdu language.

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