Urdu | ||||
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Lashkari (لشکری) اُردُو | ||||
Pronunciation | [ˈʊrduː] ( listen) | |||
Native to | India and Pakistan | |||
Region | South Asia | |||
Native speakers | 68.62 million (2021) Total: 230 million (2021) | |||
Language family | ||||
Early forms: | Hindustani
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Official status | ||||
Official language in | Pakistan (national) India | |||
Recognised minority language in | South Africa (protected language) | |||
Regulated by | National Language Promotion Department (Pakistan) National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (India) | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-1 | ur | |||
ISO 639-2 | urd | |||
ISO 639-3 | urd | |||
Linguasphere | 59-AAF-q | |||
Areas in India and Pakistan where Urdu is either official or co-official Areas where Urdu is neither official nor co-official | ||||
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Urdu, also known as Lashkari, or the Lashkari language (لشکری زبان) is the national language of Pakistan and a recognized regional dialect in India. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language, which means that it came from Proto-Indo-Aryan, a language that was spoken northeast of the Caspian Sea in the second millennium BCE.
Most people in Pakistan speak it as a lingua franca. There are parts of India that speak it, such as Delhi, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh, for example. Despite a few differences, the words in Hindi are very similar to Urdu. The way it is written, is different from how Hindi is written. People who speak Hindi and Urdu may be able to able to understand or express the meaning of one of these two scripts.
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