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Name:
Urdu
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Islami; Undri; Urudu; Hindustani; Western Hindī; Western Hindi; Urdū; Bihari
Spoken in:
Fiji, Nepal, India, Malawi, South Africa, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Oman, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Zambia, United Kingdom, Guyana, Norway, Thailand, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Mauritius, Qatar
Number of speakers:
10,700,000 in Pakistan (1993). Population total all countries: 60,586,800
(Ethnologue)
Code:
urd
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Hindustani (hind)
Child Dialects:
Dakhini; Dakhinī; Dakani; Dakkhini; Deccan; Desia; Mirgan (urd-dak)
Pinjari (urd-pin)
Map of Urdu
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