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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Urdu language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Urdū is a member of the Indo-Aryan family of languages (i.e., those languages descending from Sanskrit), which is in turn a branch of the Indo-Iranian group (which comprises the Indo-Aryan and the Iranian branches), which itself is a member of the Indo-European linguistic family. |
 | | Urdū is a weakly inflected language for case; the relationship of a noun in a sentence is usually shown by postpositions (i.e., prepositions that follow the noun). |
 | | The official language of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and their successor states, as well as the cultured language of poetry and literature, was Persian, while the language of religion was Arabic. |
| www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Urdu_language (6650 words) |
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