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A list of English words that have been borrowed from Hindi and Urdu, two registers of the Hindustani language. Many words have Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, or Turkic roots, and some entered English during the colonial period.
Learn how Persian influenced the formation and development of Urdu, a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and India. See a sample comparison of Iranian Persian and formal Urdu texts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in South Asia, with 230 million speakers worldwide. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English, and has a Persianised register and a rich literary heritage.
Balti is a Tibetic language spoken by the Balti people in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and in the Kargil and Nubra districts of Ladakh, India. It has four dialects, a simple pitch accent system, and a Perso-Arabic script with seven additional letters.
Shahmukhi is a right-to-left abjad script used for Punjabi varieties in Pakistan and some parts of India. It is derived from the Perso-Arabic alphabet and has diacritics, numerals and extended letters for Saraiki.
Aurat is a word that means "woman" in many Asian languages, but also has other meanings such as "nakedness" or "privacy". Learn about its etymology, socio-cultural construct, spelling and pronunciation variations, and usage in different regions and communities.
Learn about the history, regions, languages and religions of Urdu-speakers, native speakers of Urdu, a language derived from Hindi and Persian. Find out how Urdu became a lingua franca in South Asia and beyond, and how it evolved under different political and cultural influences.
Urdu Wikipedia is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 208,406 articles, 182,570 registered users and 12,633 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.