Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language with about 104 million speakers, including those who speak it as a second language. It is the national language of Pakistan and is closely related to and mutually intelligible with Hindi, though a lot of Urdu vocabulary comes from Persian and Arabic, while Hindi contains more vocabulary from Sanskrit. Linguists consider Standard Urdu and Standard Hindi to be different formal registers both derived from the Khari Boli dialect, which is also known as Hindustani. At an informal spoken level there are few significant differences between Urdu and Hindi and they could be considered varieties a single language.
Urdu is also spoken in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Fiji, Germany, Guyana, India, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, the UAE, the UK and Zambia.
Urdu has been written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script since the 12th century and is normally written in Nastaliq style. The word Urdu is Turkish for 'foreign' or 'horde'.
The letter nūn-e ğunnah appears only at the ends of words.
Tamām insān āzād ôr ḥuqūq-o ʿizzat ke ėʿtibār se barābar peidā hū'e heiṅ. Inheṅ żamīr ôr ʿaql vadīʿat hū'ī he. Isli'e inheṅ ek dūsre ke sāth bhā'ī čāre kā sulūk karnā čāhi'e.
A recording of this text by Mustansar Malik
A recording of this text by Ganesh Deshmukh
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Tower of Babel in Urdu | Useful phrases in Urdu | Numbers in Urdu
Urdu language courses, dictionaries, etc.
Information about Urdu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_language
http://www.theurdulanguage.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/urdu.shtml
Online Urdu lessons
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/guide/urdu/
http://mylanguages.org/learn_urdu.php
http://www.urduword.com
http://www.forumpakistan.com/urdu-lessons-t7099.html
http://www.ukindia.com/zurdu1.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z719EX52iSc
http://www.glovico.org/en/urdu
Information about the Urdu script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_alphabet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1crskxlzh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z719EX52iSc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/guide/urdu/alphabet.shtml
http://sites.google.com/site/indopersica/
Urdu transliterator
http://syedgakbar.co.cc/products/web/
Online Urdu Dictionaries
http://www.urduword.com
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/
http://www.urduseek.com
Free Urdu fonts
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/mlk/470/download.htm
National Language Authority of Pakistan
http://www.nla.gov.pk
Online Urdu radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/
Online Urdu news
http://www.urdutimes.com
http://www.myurdunews.com
http://www.sahilonline.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/
http://www.urdusky.com
UrduPoint - information in Urdu about a wide variety of topics
http://www.urdupoint.com
Online Urdu literature
http://www.urdustan.com/
Urdu Poetry
http://www.urdupoetry.com
http://www.hallagulla.com
http://www.urdupoet.net
Urdu Music
http://www.allghazals.com
Ibtada - an Urdu portal (in Urdu)
http://www.ibtada.com
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