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INTRODUCTION
A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO URDU
The language of the road, and most widely spoken and understood language in Pakistan and India is Urdu (also called Hindustani, Hindi, Bihari, Dakhini). More than 220 million people in sub-continent regard it as their mother tongue and is actively used by 400 million people in India and Pakistan in their daily life at work and home. Outside subcontinent large Urdu speaking communities are found in USA, UK, Mauritius, South Africa, Yemen, Uganda, Singapore, Nepal, New Zealand and Germany.
Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and an official language of State of UP in India. It unites all people and all communities, whatever their mother tongue.
It has been influenced and enriched by Dravidian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portuguese and English. It is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words. It can also be used for exact and rational reasoning.
Urdu is graceful and poetic with no over-harsh gutturals to cause a foreigner to stumble in his/her pronunciation. It is also a language that lends itself to scholarship and artistic endeavour and that rests on a vast and elegant body of literature and poetry going back some 700 years. Most notably, however, it is a polite and gentle language which, in its forms of speech, recognizes the basic equality of all humanity, bestowing equal respect on the servant and the master, the courtier and the king.
THE SCRIPT
Urdu is written in modified Arabic script, from right to left. It has developed some very sophisticated and beautiful calligraphical scripts for printing. The most popular is "Nastaliq". Most of the books, newspapers and general printed matters are printed in this script.
The other script, which also found its place in printing, especially after the invention of typewrites and printing machines, using typesetting (Linotype, Monotype, etc) is Nasakh.
A fast hand writing is done in Shikastaa, which is very close to shorthand of English or other European languages, however it does not use the principles of shorthand. Though not a single letter is omitted, one with enough practice can write Urdu with a speed pretty close to that of short hand.
Development of new printing technologies and use of computer has brought many Urdu software. This is already mentioned in other pages. There are many content rich sites available on different Urdu software. Different individuals, institutes and councils for development of Urdu language from Pakistan and India have launched very informative and useful sites on this subject. So, I will not go in details here.
A BRIEF HISTORY
You must have heard of how this language got the name URDU. Or you might have not. Well, if you look into a dictionary you will find that this word means: An army. a camp, a market place; then there is urdu-i-mu'alla, the royal camp or army; and zuban-e-urdu-i-mu'alla, which means language of the royal army or court. This was the whole name given to the early form of the language, which is said to find its way among the members of the royal army of India some more than 600 years ago, as a result of integration of people from different language background.
Some historical sources reveal that Urdu and Hindi developed side by side as the result of this process of integration of different cultures and languages from the same Khari Boli dialect of Delhi, the capital city of the Delhi Sultanate, and it became the speech of the classes and neighborhoods most closely connected with the Mughal court (1556-1858). In time, the language spread all over the North India and even into South India because it served as a common medium of communication among different nations for trade, administration, and military purposes.
By the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Urdu had developed into a highly stylized form written in a Persian-Arabic script. After the British took over from the Mughals, whose language of administration was Persian, Urdu began to serve as the language of administration in lower courts in the north. British administrators and missionaries, however, felt that the high literary form of Urdu was too remote from everyday life and was suffused by a Persian vocabulary unintelligible to the masses. Therefore, they instigated the development of modern standard Hindi in Devanagari script.
After 1947, Urdu became the national language of Pakistan, though Pakistan inherited no land where this language was a local language. Now in all major cities of Pakistan people speak at home and at work Urdu. Except in rural areas and remote villages in Baulochistan and Frontier province Urdu is the medium of education in most of the schools. In Karachi Urdu is exclusively used in every walk of life by all the people.
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