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| Extinct: no |
| Family: Indo-European |
| Branch: Indic |
| Continent: Asia |
| Country: Pakistan |
| Region: Also spoken in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Fiji, Germany, Guyana, India, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, UAE, United Kingdom, Zambia. |
| Countries Where Spoken: 10,719,000 mother tongue speakers in Pakistan (1993), 7.57% of the population. Population total all countries 60,290,000 or more. Including second language speakers: 104,000,000 (1999 WA). India, Mauritius, South Africa. |
| Countries Where Official: Pakistan |
| Native Speakers: 10,719,000 |
| Speakers Total: 60,290,000 |
| Phrasebase members who speak this language at a native level: 77 |
| Phrasebase members who speak this language at a conversational level: 77 |
| Phrasebase members primary language they are trying to learn: 112 |
| Phrasebase members secondary language they are trying to learn: 203 |
| Three Letter Code: URD |
| Alternative Names: none |
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| Summary: Intelligible with Hindi, but has formal vocabulary borrowed from Arabic and Persian. The second or third language of most Pakistanis for whom it is not the mother tongue. National language. Grammar. Arabic script in Nastaliq style with several extra characters used. Muslim. Bible 1843-1998. |
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