Urdu is an official language of Pakistan. Urdu is also spoken in India. the official language of Pakistan, also used in India (urdu-zaban )
{i} official Pakistani language which is written in Arabic letters and spoken by over 100 million people worldwide (mostly Muslims in Pakistan, but also in India and Bangladesh)
the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
Hindustani Language written with an Arabic Script using the Nastaliq Style 36 letters with 3 short vowels, 4 long vowels 5 asparite signs and 4 other signs
the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script relating to the Urdu language; "Urdu poetry
Urdu and Hindi share a grammar and a large number of words vocabulary If a speaker uses mostly Sanskritic words, we say they are speaking Hindi If they use mostly Farsi words, they are speaking Urdu Urdu is written in the Arabic script Hindi is written in the Devanagari script
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
[ 'ur-(")dü, '&r- ] (noun.) 1796. From Persian اردو (ordu), from Turkic ordu (“army, camp”) ( > Azeri ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen oorda). Compare horde.