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Dhakaiya Urdu is a dialect native to the city of Old Dhaka in Bangladesh, dating back to the Mughal era. However, its popularity, even amongst native speakers, has been gradually declining since the Bengali Language Movement in the 20th century. It is not officially recognised by the Government of Bangladesh.
The Urdu Wikipedia ( Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا ), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu -language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [ 1][ 2] As of 17 August 2024, it has 209,226 articles, 183,393 registered users and 12,670 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks ...
The Urdu alphabet ( Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized : urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.
Like Urdu-speaking people, the Alvis of Kakori are referred to as Moulvizadigan (Moulvis) or Makhdûmzadigan (Makhdûms) indicating whether they are descendants of Mullah Abu Bakr Jami Alavi, who settled in Kakori in 1461 or descendants of Qari Amir Saifuddin Alavi, who settled in Kakori in 1552, they are mostly known as Shaikh. [ 59]
Persian and Urdu are distinct languages. Persian is classified as an Iranian language, whereas Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language. They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and hence share some linguistic features due to common descent . However, the majority of influence from Persian is direct, through a process often ...
The Urdu keyboard is any keyboard layout for Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution. [ 1] With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanized compositions have reduced to very few that are compatible with the ...
Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. [ 2][ 3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [ 4][ 5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred ...
Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and ...