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1.INTRODUCTION/ٱ غا ز :-

The intro is really big so i will try to sum it up.You can easily find its details with some translates at Wikipedia. Urdu

Urdu (Urdu: اُردوُ, ) is a Central Indo-Aryan language[1][2] of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the two official languages (the other being English) of Pakistan. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of five Indian states. Its vocabulary developed under Persian, Arabic and Turkic. In modern times Urdu vocabulary has been significantly influenced by English. Urdu was mainly developed in western Uttar Pradesh, India, which is the seat of Hindustani languages in the Indian Subcontinent, but began taking shape during the Delhi Sultanate as well as Mughal Empire (1526–185 cool in South Asia. Urdu is the means of communication between the people from various provinces and regions of Pakistan, and the Pakistanis and Indians too. Due to historical affinities and a large number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Urdu is already read, understood and spoken by most Afghan population.[3]

Language scholars independently categorize Urdu as a standardised register of Hindustani (literally translated means belonging to Hindustan) [4][5][6] termed the standard dialect Khariboli.[6] The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard Urdu. In general, the term "Urdu" can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions. The original language of the Mughals had been Turkic, but after their arrival in South Asia, they came to adopt Persian. Gradually, the need to communicate with local inhabitants led to a composition of Sanskrit derived languages, written in the Perso-Arabic script and with literary conventions and specialised vocabulary being retained from Persian, Arabic and Turkic; the new dialect was eventually given its own name of Urdu.[7]

The word Urdu is believed to be derived from the Turkic or Mongolian word 'Ordu', which means army encampment.[8][9][10] It was initially called Zabān-e-Ordu-e-Mu'alla "language of the Exalted Camp" (in Persian) and later just Urdu.[11] It obtained its name from Urdu Bazar, i.e. encampment (Urdu in Turkic) market, the market near the Red Fort in the walled city of Delhi.

2. Alphabets/حر وف

For more information,visit BBC and also Wikipedia.The alphabets of urdu are on BBC and Wikipedia both but go to BBC because the true sounds are on it.

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After,a week i will go to advanced basics of the alphabets so try to learn the basics if any problem contact me.

Alright, nice introduction biggrin

Hrrm...Why is it that Urdu speakers understand Hindi? If Urdu looks more like Arabic... sweatdrop

@Call me apple:You know about sister languages,Like Hebrew and Arabic just that Urdu and Hindi are sister languages they resemble very much with each other.

@Little pea:Good question,The ؤ is used to bind them Like the Quaid-e-Azam,e here has no meaning here but is used to bind the words and we also used harkat like Arabic,the reason is as same as why Arabic language uses them because people who speak understand how to speak them without harkat but those who don't it is for their understanding and help.

@frozen:Your welcome,Urdu has its origins from Farsi but for understanding you should just see it, if you already know it then there is no need

@Little pea:It is pronounced A s s as you asked about harakat thats where they come there is a "zabar on the alif" which gives you "A" sound just like in arabic,Urdu resembles Arabic in many ways and the use harakat is one of them and if you saw the basic alphabets of urdu in BBC it has words so anyways if you listen to sound of "Alif" it gives you an A sound without any haroof,take a look see at it

lol, I'm not advanced, I don't know one single thing about Urdu.
The only thing I can do is read the alphabet so I'm just trying to guess what's going on there, which doesn't really work because I don't know a damn thing. XD