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urdUrdu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Urdu (Urdu: , ; ) is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an official language of five states. Based on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi, Urdu is derived from Sanskrit and developed under the influence of Persian, Arabic, and Turkic over the course of almost 900 years. It began to take shape in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India during the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1527), and continued to develop under the Mughal Empire (1526–1858). Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi (or Hindi-Urdu) spoken in India. Both languages share the same Indic base and are so similar in phonology and grammar that they appear to be one language. The combined population of Hindi and Urdu speakers is the fourth largest in the world.

ISO 639-1 code

  • ur

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • urd

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • urd

ISO 639-3 code

  • urd

Notation

  • urd

In other languages

  • ourdou

    French

  • Ourdou
  • Urdu

    German

  • urdu

    Italian

  • Lingua urdu
  • Portuguese

  • Língua urdu
  • Urdu

    Spanish

  • urdu

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/urd

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