Urdu
Urdu ə This article contains nonstandard pronunciation information ... Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation) for help. Urdu () Spoken in: India, Pakistan, and by at ... Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Hindi languages Hindustani Urdu Official status Official language of: Pakistan;Jammu ... may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the ... Mughal Empire (1200-1800). Taken by itself, Urdu is approximately the twentieth most populous ...
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Talk:Urdu
Talk:Urdu IPA Someone familiar with Urdu should transliterate the example phrases into IPA ... we mention the place of origin of Urdu more definitively than simply 'South Asia' in ... can be put as birth date for Urdu? Chirags 14:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC ... sometimes over centuries. However, the earliest known Urdu poet (Amir Khusro) lived around the ...
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Roman Urdu
Roman Urdu Roman Urdu is the name used for the Urdu language written with the Roman alphabet. According to one writer, "Roman Urdu is strongly opposed by the traditional Arabic script lovers. Despite this opposition it is ...
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Urdu phrasebook (Wikitravel)
Urdu phrasebook Urdu اردو, Sometimes formally called Zabān-e-Urdū ... 5% of a majority Muslim Indian population. Urdu derives its grammar from Persian and Sanskrit ... alīq (نستعليق). Dakini is a dialect of Urdu with less Arabic and Persian words and ... the Muslim enclave of the Deccan (India). Urdu emerged during Muslim rule in Central ...
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Gurmukhī script
Gurmukhī script This page contains Indic text. Without rendering ... lack of conjuncts. More... The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in ... s 1430 pages are written in this script. The word Gurmukhi is commonly translated as ... the North Indian writing systems, the Gurmukhi script is a descendant of the Brahmi ...
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Urdu Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia This article or section does not ... help Wikipedia by including appropriate citations. Wikipedia Urdu, started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open ... as the software did not work with Urdu characters. Urdunization Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical ...
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Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry Like other languages, the history of Urdu poetry does not have a firm starting ... influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix. Literary figures as far ... 1325 AD) deserve mention as influences later Urdu poets draw on for inspiration as well ... area in the world. Over this period, Urdu poets have produced a large number ...
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Hindi phrasebook (Wikitravel)
... standing tongue"). A mixture of Hindi and Urdu, called Hindustani (though this name is also ... vowels never follow another in the Devanagari script; though there is a special rule when ... Omniglot Hindi] Ancient Scripts: Devanagari Avashy Hindi Script Tutor Calligraphier la Devanâgarî Hindi Alphabet at ... numerous books on Hindi. Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook by Richard Delacy (Lonely Planet Publications ... Rare, in that both Hindi Devanagari and Urdu Naskh are en face. Also includes ...
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History of Urdu
History of Urdu The history of Urdu (اردو) is a fascinating story involving history ... one that would eventually be known as Urdu (from a Turkish word meaning "army", in ... soldiers and native peoples. Soon, the Persian script and Nasta'liq form of cursive was ... of the takhallus, were readily absorbed into Urdu literature both religious and secular. Urdu ...
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Talk:Bengali script
Talk:Bengali script Script I have added the table for Bangla script just now (although due my stupidity, it ... sure that all the letters in Assamese script are on the table and the numbers ... changed the vowel placement on the Bengali script page. For me, the vowel placement ...
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