URDU ~ The official language of Pakistan:
Urdu is a Central Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is
the national language and one of the two official languages (the other being English) of Pakistan. Being spoken in five
Indian states, it is also one of the official languages of India. Its vocabulary developed under Persian, Arabic, Turkic and
Sanskrit. In modern times Urdu vocabulary has been significantly influenced by Punjabi and even English. Urdu was mainly
developed in western Uttar Pradesh, India, but began taking shape during the Delhi Sultanate as well as Mughal Empire
(1526–1858) in the Indian Subcontinent.
Language scholars independently categorize Urdu as a standardised register of Hindustani termed the standard dialect
Khariboli. The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Urdu. In general, the term “Urdu” can encompass
dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions. The original language of the Mughals had been Turkic, but after
their arrival in South Asia, they came to adopt Persian and later Urdu.
The word Urdu is believed to be derived from the Turkic or Mongolian word ‘Ordu’, which means army encampment. It was
initially called Zab?n-e-Ordu-e-Mu’alla “language of the Exalted Camp” (in Persian) and later just Urdu. It obtained its name
from Urdu Bazar, i.e. encampment (Urdu in Turkic) market, the market near the Red Fort in the walled city of Delhi.
Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of native speakers, among all languages.
Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardised form of Hindustani. The main differences between the two are that
Standard Urdu is conventionally written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and draws vocabulary more
heavily from Persian and Arabic, while Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devan?gar? and draws vocabulary from
Sanskrit comparatively more heavily.Most linguists nonetheless consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the
same language; however, others classify them separately due to sociolinguistic differences.
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