1.Urdu belongs to the Indic group of the Indo-European
family of languages and is the official language of Pakistan.
2.It is also widely spoken in India. In Pakistan it is the
mother tongue of about 10 million people and is spoken fluently as a second
language by perhaps 80 million more.
3.In India, where it is spoken by some 50 million Moslems,
it is one of the official languages recognized by the constitution.
4. Together with Arabic, it is a religious language for
Moslems.
5.Urdu and Hindi, the official language of India, are
virtually the same language, though the latter is written in the Sanskrit
characters and derives most of its vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu
contains many words from Persian and Arabic.
6.The basis of both languages is actually Hindustani, the
colloquial form of speech that served as the lingua franca of much of India for
more than four centuries.
7."Rekhta" is a form of Urdu used in poetry.
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