what's the meaning of word "urdu" and from which language is this?
2006-08-14 18:12:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
'Urdu' is a Turkish word which means 'foreign' or 'horde'. This just shows that the language represents it's origin being an amalgamation of foreigners with the natives of South Asia. It was formulated by the interaction of foreign army, merchants and immigrants to India. Today, it is the national language of Pakistan and is quite similar to the neighbouring country India's national language Hindi. Infact, the grammar of Urdu is quite similar to Hindi. The forte of the language has been and still is it's literature that has some master pieces
Urdu uses Persian-Arabic script and Hindi uses sanskrit script called Devnagri. There are other differences too, but the grammar is common between the two languages. It is interesting to note that many languages share Arabic script of writing.
urdu is considered considered as d sweetest language of the world. it took birth in India. urdu speeking is similar 2 hindi but urdu writting is similar 2 arabic.
2006-08-14 21:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by crackluver007 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Urdu is a language. Urdu means camp(as in a battle) in Persian.
The name of the language is Urdu (camp language) because is developed as a resut of communication between the Persian and the Hindi speaking soldiers in and around Delhi, in the 15th century
2006-08-15 22:42:52 · answer #2 · answered by shayan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
URDU is a language the pakistanis(or muslims) usually speak.
2006-08-14 18:19:54 · answer #3 · answered by Amigo 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Urdū (اُردو) is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, and Sanskrit influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800).
Taken by itself, Urdū is approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the national language of Pakistan as well as one of the 23 national languages of India.
2006-08-14 18:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Urdu means "LASHKAR" in farsi (iranian).and it means a platoon of army.at the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in india there used to be soldiers in the Mughal army from different areas of india who speaks different languages.so for there better coordination this language has been created and it has farsi script there is arabic also.people in India,Pakistan and some in Bangladesh speak urdu.
2006-08-14 19:18:14 · answer #5 · answered by seeker 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, acording to http://www.etymonline.com, Urdu literally means "camp" as in it is the language spoken at a military camp
2006-08-14 18:34:18 · answer #6 · answered by Macarro 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is a name of a language.used for speaking,writing and communication .
2006-08-14 18:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by Bhahagyam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/urdu.htm
take a look!!!
2006-08-14 19:45:52 · answer #8 · answered by Papilio paris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋