Urdu | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 09/12/2018

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Urdu


00:01:35 1 Origin
00:05:04 2 Speakers and geographic distribution
00:11:06 3 Cultural identity and Islam
00:11:16 3.1 Colonial India
00:12:23 3.2 Pakistan
00:13:23 4 Official status
00:14:59 5 Dialects
00:16:00 5.1 Code switching
00:16:43 6 Comparison with Modern Standard Hindi
00:18:18 7 Phonology
00:18:27 7.1 Consonants
00:18:42 7.2 Vowels
00:18:55 8 Vocabulary
00:19:48 8.1 Levels of formality
00:21:08 9 Writing system
00:23:00 10 Literature
00:23:25 10.1 Prose
00:23:49 10.1.1 Religious
00:24:44 10.1.2 Literary
00:26:22 10.2 Poetry
00:28:24 10.2.1 Terminologies
00:29:40 10.2.2 Urdu poetry example
00:29:55 10.2.2.1 Transliteration
00:30:11 10.2.2.2 Translation
00:30:27 11 Sample text
00:30:43 11.1 Urdu text
00:30:52 11.2 Transliteration (ALA-LC)
00:31:19 11.3 IPA transcription
00:31:48 11.4 Gloss (word-for-word)
00:32:13 11.5 Translation (grammatical)
00:32:42 12 See also



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Urdu (; Urdu: اُردُو‬‎ ALA-LC: Urdū [ˈʊrduː] (listen))—or, more precisely, Modern Standard Urdu—is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language. It is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is one of the 22 official languages recognized in the Constitution of India, having official status in the six states of Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as well as the national capital territory of Delhi. It is a registered regional language of Nepal.
Apart from specialized vocabulary, spoken Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi, another recognized register of Hindustani. The Urdu variant of Hindustani received recognition and patronage under British rule when the British replaced the local official languages with English and Hindustani written in Nastaʿlīq script, as the official language in North and Northwestern India. Religious, social, and political factors pushed for a distinction between Urdu and Hindi in India, leading to the Hindi–Urdu controversy.According to Nationalencyklopedin's 2010 estimates, Urdu is the 21st most spoken first language in the world, with approximately 66 million speakers. According to Ethnologue's 2017 estimates, Urdu, along with standard Hindi and the languages of the Hindi belt (as Hindustani), is the 3rd most spoken language in the world, with approximately 329.1 million native speakers, and 697.4 million total speakers.