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Urdu (اُردُو) Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Pakistan and India, and also in Nepal, Bangladesh and several other countries. It is also known as Modern Standard Urdu or Lashkari (لشکری), and is described as a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language .
Although the majority of Urdu-speakers reside in Pakistan (including 30 million native speakers, and up to 94 million second-language speakers), where Urdu is the national and official language, most speakers who use Urdu as their native tongue live in northern India, where it is one of 22 official languages.
Urdu. For a list of words relating to Urdu, see the Urdu language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urdu language.
Mar 4, 2020 · Urdu Wikipedia was started in 2004 and we have 150,138 articles so far (as far of March 2020). Wikipedians from Pakistan and India mostly contribute to Urdu Wikipedia. We have recently launched our social media handles for the betterment of Urdu Wikipedia.
It is seen as the lingua franca for around two million British South Asians. [1] According to the 2021 census, 270,000 people (0.5% of UK residents) listed Urdu as their main language, an increase of 1,000 from 2011. [2] Ethnologue reports the total number of Urdu speakers in the UK at over 400,000. [3]
Jun 27, 2023 · It is the national language and of the official languages of Pakistan. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi.
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