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Urdu developed as a vernacular dialect from the interaction between local Indian Sanskrit-derived Prakrits and the languages that were spoken in the courts of the rulers of the The Subcontinent, from the time of the Delhi Sultanate to the Mughal Empire and its succeeding states.
Urdu is a member of the Hindustani group of languages, which is a subgroup of the Indo Aryan group of languages, which is in turn part of the Indo European family of languages.
Urdu is one of the official languages of India, and while the government school system emphasizes Hindi, many universities, especially in Lucknow, continue to foster Urdu as a language of prestige and learning.
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It soon became the prized language of the Mughals, distinguished linguistically from local languages by its large and extensive Arabic-Persian vocabulary superimposed on a native Hindi base of grammar, usages and vocabulary.
As a spoken language : Urdu is the lingua franca of Pakistan.
Urdu is one of the official languages of India, and while the government school system emphasizes Hindi, many universities, especially in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, continue to foster Urdu as a language of prestige and learning.
Urdu is a member of the Hindustani group of languages, which is a subgroup of the Indo Aryan group, which is in turn part of the Indo European family of languages.
Urdu is the sole official language of Pakistan, although English is used in most elite circles and Punjabi has plurality of native speakers.
Urdu was the premiere language of poetry in India for two centuries and has a large and rich collection of poetry in a host of different poetic forms.
Urdu was being established as a language of communication during the rule of Akbar.
Urdu was being slowly recognized as the most popular language spoken in north India and a claim was made that it be the language of primary communication between the British and other government officials and the people of north India.
Wilson wishes to substitute a language which is still in a comparatively rudimentary state and is spoken little by the educated classes for one which ahs reached a high stage of development, and is far better suited for expressing the technicalities of legal phraseology and abstract or complex ideas in general.
Linguistically, Arabic is a Semitic language unrelated to the Indo-Iranian languages of Pakistan.
Urdu only made some inroads in Pakistan region during British rule but was limited to the few educated/elite because of the then Hindustani Muslim domination of politics/education/etc. It was only after 1947 that Urdu made some serious inroads in Pakistan under the banner of national language, and Muhajir domination of media/govt.
Persian was the court language and the language of the educated and even till the early 19th century in far Bengal, the Hindu intelligentsia wrote and used Persian and not Urdu.
Urdu is considered one of the sweetest language of the world.
It is the National Language of Pakistan and one of the Official Language of India.
Seven Urdupoets were honoured with the Ghalib Awards at the hands of former Prime Minister IK Gujral at an evening here which was made memorable by rendition of ghazals by renowned singer Jagjit Singh.
Urdu, distinguished from Hindi by its script and vocabulary, is the national language of Pakistan and one of the official languages of India.
It is one of the most widely spoken languages of South Asia, and has acquired a wider distribution in other parts of the world, notably the UK, where it is regarded as their major cultural language by most Muslims from Pakistan and northern India.
Besides its important role as the chief vehicle of Islam in South Asia, Urdu has an important secular literature, whose poetry is closely based on Persian models.
A set of 13 enchanting and delightful children books in Urdu, for the reading pleasure of your kids (ages 5-6) by the widely acclaimed Book Group A must have for any expatriate family where the parents would like their children to learn Urdulanguage.
Nasir Kazmi continues to be one of the most well known and beloved Urdupoets of the post-partition era.
The ‘Kulyaat- E —Nasir’, a supreme collection of his ‘ghazals’, ‘nazms’ and ‘dramas’ is a reminder of the genius of the poet.
