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Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving. Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice. [1] The name comes from the Latin for 'to speak from the stomach: Venter (belly) and loqui (speak). [2] The Greeks called this engastromythia (Ancient Greek: εγγαστριμυθία).
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
It has been stated [4] that babies, when hungry, search for their mother's milk by moving their heads vertically, but decline milk by turning their head from side to side. An early survey of head shake and other gestures was The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , written by Charles Darwin in 1872.
This category contains articles with Urdu-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. This category should only be added with the {} family of templates, never explicitly.
Seerat-e Mustafa (Urdu: سیرت مصطفیؐ) is a 20th-century prophetic biography authored in Urdu by Idris Kandhlawi.Grounded in authentic narrations and presented in a classical style akin to primary Arabic sources, [1] the narrative responds to Sirat al-Nabi by Shibli Nomani, [2] addressing certain theories proposed by Syed Ahmad Khan and Shibli Nomani with a degree of skepticism. [3]
It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
Urdu in its less formalised register is known as rekhta (ریختہ, rek̤h̤tah, 'rough mixture', Urdu pronunciation:); the more formal register is sometimes referred to as زبانِ اُردُوئے معلّٰى, zabān-i Urdū-yi muʿallá, 'language of the exalted camp' (Urdu pronunciation: [zəbaːn eː ʊrdu eː moəllaː]) or لشکری ...
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.