urdu language

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Definition of urdu language in English English dictionary

Indo-Aryan language used by Muslims in India and Pakistan. In the sociopolitical realm, Urdu and Hindi are different languages, but the colloquial basis of both is identical, and as a written language Urdu differs from Hindi principally in its greater acceptance of Persian-Arabic vocabulary and in some syntactic features. It is written in the Arabic alphabet with modification of some letters to denote specifically Indo-Aryan sounds. As Pakistan's official language, Urdu has been promoted as a token of national unity, though less than 8% of Pakistanis mainly immigrants and descendants of immigrants from India after the 1947 partition speak it as a first language

Hyphenation

Ur·du lan·guage

Turkish pronunciation

ırdu länggwıc

Pronunciation

/ərˈdo͞o ˈlaɴɢgwəʤ/ /ɜrˈduː ˈlæŋɡwəʤ/