Urdu Translation
Language Name: Urdu
Other Names of Urdu:
Urdu Language Varieties: Dakhni (also known as Dakani, Deccani, Desia, Mirgan), Rekhta, Modern Vernacular Urdu akhni, Pakistani
Written Script of Urdu: Urdu alphabet
Urdu is an Official Language in: Pakistan and India
Urdu is spoken in: Pakistan and India
Urdu Number of Speakers: 65 million people speaks Urdu
Urdu ISO Code: ur, urd
Notes: Modern Urdu is mutually intelligible with Hindi language. The main differences between the two are that Standard Urdu is conventionally written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and relies heavily on Persian and Arabic as a source for technical and literary language, whereas Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devanāgarī and draws on Sanskrit.
