Urdu Language

Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It develops under the influence of Persian, Arabic and Turkic during the Delhi sultanate and Mughal Empire in South Asia.

Urdu

Urdu is a standardized register of Hindustani that emerged as a standard dialect. In general, the term Urdu can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardized versions.

Urdu has approximately the largest population of native speakers, among all languages. It is the national language of Pakistan.

                Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi and another standardized form of Hindustani. The main differences between the two are that Urdu is written in Nastaliq style of the per so-Arabic script, while Hindi is written in Devanagari and vocabulary from Sanskrit. Linguists none the less consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language.

                 Because of Urdu is similar to Hindi, speakers of two languages can easily understand one another. However, Urdu and Hindi are entirely different and people who self describe as being speakers of Hindi would question their being counted as native speakers of Urdu and vice-versa.