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Urdu language
Indo-European - Indo-Iranian - Indo-Aryan - Central Zone[?] - Western Hindi[?] - Hindustani - Urdu
Urdu is an Indo-European language which originated in the 13th century and is closely related to Hindi.
Urdu is the state language of Pakistan, spoken by 10 million Pakistanis as mother tongue[?]. Worldwide, about 60 million mother tongue speakers exist. Including second language speakers, 104 million people speak Urdu. The language is spoken in these countries:
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Urdu is closely related to Hindi but is written in an extended Arabic alphabet rather than in Devanagari. Urdu also has more loans from Arabic and Persian than Hindi has.
- ISO 639-1: ur
- ISO 639-2: urd
- SIL: URD (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=URD)
- Introductory Urdu (Volume 1) (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc?BOOKID=PK1983.N2_1999_V1)
- Introductory Urdu (Volume 2) (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc?BOOKID=PK1983.N2_1999_V2)
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