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Urdu  

Definition

  • Urdu is a standardised register of the Hindustani language. Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims of the region of Hindustan.Urdu is written right-to-left in an extension of the Persian alphabet, which is itself an extension of the Arabic alphabet. Urdu is associated with the Nastaʿlīq style of Persian calligraphy.

Identifier

  • URD

Notation

  • ur
  • UR
  • urd
  • URDU

In other languages

  • урду

    Bulgarian

  • urdski

    Croatian

  • urdština

    Czech

  • urdu

    Danish

  • Urdu

    Dutch

  • urdu keel

    Estonian

  • urdu

    Finnish

  • ourdou

    French

  • urdu
  • Urdu

    German

  • ούρντου

    Greek

  • urdu

    Hungarian

  • úrdú

    Icelandic

  • Urdais

    Irish

  • urdu

    Italian

  • urdu

    Latvian

  • urdu kalba

    Lithuanian

  • урду

    Macedonian

  • Urdu

    Maltese

  • urdu

    Norwegian

  • urdu

    Polish

  • urdu

    Portuguese

  • urdu

    Romanian

  • урду

    Russian

  • урду

    Serbian

  • urdu

    Serbo-Croatian

  • urdčina

    Slovak

  • urdu

    Slovenian

  • urdu

    Spanish

  • urdu

    Swedish

  • urduca

    Turkish

  • урду

    Ukrainian

  • urdušćina

    Upper Sorbian

  • اُردُو

    Urdu

  • urdū

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/URD

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