Urdu
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Urdu ˈ (Urdu: اُردُو, Urdū, pronounced [ʊrˈd̪u] ( listen)), forby said Lashkari (لشکری ˈləʃkəri)[9], is the heidmaist leid that is spak in Pakistan. It is in mony weys seemilar tae Hindi whan spak (the twa is mutually intelligable) it haes a different writin seestem that's taen frae the Arabic. There's 60-80 million native speakers, an 160 million tot.
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Urdu | |
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ur Lashkari (لشکری) | |
Urdu in Perso-Arabic script (Nastaʿlīq style) | |
Pronunciation | Hindustani: [ˈʊrd̪u] |
Native tae | Pakistan, Indie, Bangladesh ("Bihari"), Nepal[1] |
Native speakers | 66 million (2007)[2] Tot (only Urdu): 104 million (2010)[3] Tot (includin Hindi): 490 million (2010)[4] |
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Arabic (Urdu alphabet [Nastaʿlīq) Devanagari Urdu Braille | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Pakistan Indie (states o Jammu an Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi) |
Regulatit bi | Naitional Leid Authority (Pakistan); Naitional Cooncil for Promotion o Urdu Leid[8] (Indie) |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ur |
ISO 639-2 | urd |
ISO 639-3 | urd |
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-q (wi Hindi, |
Auries where Urdu is offeecial or cooffeecial
(Ither) auries where Hindi is offeecial |
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