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  2. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Persian was displaced by Urdu in North India during the British colonial rule in India, though it remains in use in its native Iran (as Farsi), Afghanistan (as Dari) and Tajikistan (as Tajik). Urdu is currently the official language and lingua franca of Pakistan , and an officially recognized language for North Indian Muslims in the republic of ...

  3. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    Example reading "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form ڛ ‎ is used in place of س ‎.. Nastaliq (/ ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k /; [2], Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some ...

  4. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اُردُو حُرُوفِ تَہَجِّی‌, 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 .

  6. Category:Persian words similar to other languages - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Persian words similar to other languages" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  7. List of countries and territories where Persian is an ...

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    Persian held official status in the court and the administration within these empires and it heavily influenced many of the local languages, particularly Urdu and to some extent modern standard Hindi. Evidence of Persian's historical influence there can be seen in the extent of its influence on the languages of the Indian subcontinent. Many of ...

  8. Sindhi transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Sindhi Transliteration is essential to convert between Arabic and Devanagari so that speakers of both the countries can read the text of each other. [4] In modern day, Sindhi script colloquially just refers to the Perso-Arabic script since majority of Sindhis are from Pakistan.

  9. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    or kebab, possibly from Persian kabab کباب, or from identical forms in Arabic and Urdu [167] Kabuli Persian کابلی kabuli, of or belonging to Kabul, Afghanistan. [168] Kaftan from Persian خفتان khaftân. [169] Kajawah from Persian کجاوه (Kajavah/Kajawah). a pannier used in pairs on camels and mules especially in India. [170 ...