The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اُردُو حُرُوفِ تَہَجِّی‌, romanized: urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is …

Urdu has been written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script since the 12th century and is normally written in Nastaliq style. The word Urdu is Turkish for 'foreign' or 'horde'. The letter …

Urdu is one of many Indic languages written in the Perso-Arabic script. Urdu’s ancestors emerged as literary languages during the time of the Delhi Sultanate (1211–1504) and grew to flourish …

Sep 15, 2024 · The Perso-Arabic script is a writing system that evolved from the Arabic script to accommodate the phonological needs of Persian and other languages influenced by Persian …

Urdu language, member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European family of languages. It is mutually intelligible with Hindi but is distinguished by its heavy borrowing from Arabic and …

Abstract: Urdu language is native to India and Pakistan and it is written in the Perso-Arabic script. A distinctive feature of the script is that it is written from right to left. Nastaliq is the most widely …

The range of literary diversity, richness and evolution of Urdu during these 400 years was steadily maintained in the Perso-Arabic script. Likewise, the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries...

Urdu[a] (اُرْدُو) or Urdu language (اُرْدُو زبان) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan.

Oct 21, 2025 · Much of Urdu's vocabulary is of Perso-Arabic origin. The attitude towards Persian and Arabic vocabulary in India, and Bollywood songs in particular, is entirely different.

Jun 6, 2025 · Urdu uses the Nastaliq script, a cursive form of the Perso-Arabic script, written from right to left. This script has 38 letters, with vowels often indicated by diacritical marks (airaabs) …