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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. It has co-official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia ...
Baṛī ye (Urdu: بَڑی يے, Urdu pronunciation: [ˈbəɽiː ˈjeː]; lit. ' greater ye ') is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indo-Iranian language alphabets based on it) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic, Thuluth, Naskh, and Nastaliq scripts. [1]
Urdu (اردو) is the national language (قومی زبان) and lingua franca of Pakistan. [ 15 ] Although only about 9% of Pakistanis speak it as their first language, it is widely spoken and understood as a second language by the vast majority of Pakistanis. [ 16 ][ 17 ]
Urdu (/ ˈʊərduː /; اُردُو, pronounced [ʊɾduː] ⓘ, ALA-LC: Urdū) is a Persianised register of the Hindustani language, [10][11] an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. [12][13][14] It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English. [15]
Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal.
[2] [3] [4] The flag was subsequently retained as that of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956 and remains in use as the national flag to this day. Most notably, the flag is referred to in the third verse of Pakistan's national anthem, and is widely flown on several important days of the year, including Republic Day, Independence Day and ...
Hindi–Urdu transliteration. Hindi–Urdu (Devanagari: हिन्दी-उर्दू, Nastaliq: ہندی-اردو) (also known as Hindustani) [1][2] is the lingua franca of modern-day Northern India and Pakistan (together classically known as Hindustan). [3] Modern Standard Hindi is officially registered in India as a standard written ...