Concept information
Preferred term
Type
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language
Definition
- Urdu (Urdu: , ; ) is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an official language of five states. Based on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi, Urdu is derived from Sanskrit and developed under the influence of Persian, Arabic, and Turkic over the course of almost 900 years. It began to take shape in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India during the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1527), and continued to develop under the Mughal Empire (1526–1858). Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi (or Hindi-Urdu) spoken in India. Both languages share the same Indic base and are so similar in phonology and grammar that they appear to be one language. The combined population of Hindi and Urdu speakers is the fourth largest in the world.
is focus of
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- urd
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- urd
ISO 639-1 code
- ur
ISO 639-3 code
- urd
In other languages
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Oerdoe
Afrikaans
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Uudùw
Aghem
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Urdu kasa
Akan
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Urdu
Albanian
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ኡርዱኛ
Amharic
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الأردية
Arabic
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لغة أردوية
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Urdu
Aragonese
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Ուրդու
Armenian
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indostánicu
Asturian
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Kiurdu
Asu
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urduca
Azerbaijani
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Urdu dili
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riurdú
Bafia
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urudukan
Bambara
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উর্দু
Bangla
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উর্দু ভাষা
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Hɔp u urdù
Basaa
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urdu
Basque
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Urdu
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урду
Belarusian
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Урду
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Ichi Urudu
Bemba
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Hiurdu
Bena
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উর্দু ঠার
Bishnupriya
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ኡርዱኛ
Blin
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ऊर्दु
Bodo
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урду
Bosnian
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ourdou
Breton
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Ourdoueg
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урду
Bulgarian
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Урду
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urdú
Catalan
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Urdú
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Pinulongang Urdu
Cebuano
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Turdut
Central Atlas Tamazight
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Oru-Urudu
Chiga
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乌尔都语
Chinese
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Урду
Chuvash
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Urdu/Hindi
Colognian
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urdski
Croatian
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Urdu jezik
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urdština
Czech
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Urdština
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urdu
Danish
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Urdu
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އުރުދޫ
Divehi
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Urdu
Dutch
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ཨུར་དུ་ཁ
Dzongkha
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اردو
Egyptian Arabic
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Kĩurdu
Embu
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urduo
Esperanto
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Urduo
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urdu
Estonian
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urdugbe
Ewe
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ǹkɔ́bɔ urudú
Ewondo
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urdu
Faroese
-
Urdu
Fiji Hindi
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Urdu
Filipino
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Finnish
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Urdu
-
ourdou
French
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Ourdou
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urdu
Friulian
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Urdu
Fulah
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urdú
Galician
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Lingua urdú
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Lu-urudu
Ganda
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ურდუ
Georgian
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ურდუ ენა
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Urdu
German
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Ουρντού
Greek
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ઉર્દુ
Gujarati
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ઉર્દુ ભાષા
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Kiurdu
Gusii
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Harshen Urdu
Hausa
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אורדו
Hebrew
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उर्दू
Hindi
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उर्दू भाषा
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urdu
Hungarian
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Urdu nyelv
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úrdú
Icelandic
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Úrdú
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Urudu
Igbo
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Urdu
Indonesian
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Bahasa Urdu
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urdu
Interlingua
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Urdu
Interlingue
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Urdais
Irish
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An Urdais
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urdu
Italian
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Lingua urdu
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ウルドゥー語
Japanese
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Basa Urdu
Javanese
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urdu
Jola-Fonyi
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urdu
Kabuverdianu
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Turdut
Kabyle
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urdumiutut
Kalaallisut
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Urdumiutut
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kutitab Urdu
Kalenjin
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Kiurdu
Kamba
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ಉರ್ದು
Kannada
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ಉರ್ದೂ
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اُردوٗ
Kashmiri
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урду
Kazakh
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អ៊ូរឌូ
Khmer
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Kiurdu
Kikuyu
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Inyeyurudu
Kinyarwanda
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우르두어
Korean
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Urdu senni
Koyraboro Senni
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Urdu senni
Koyra Chiini
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Zimanê urdû
Kurdish
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Kiɛl úrdu
Kwasio
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урдуча
Kyrgyz
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Kɨúrdu
Langi
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ອູຣະດູ
Lao
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Lingua Urdu
Latin
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urdu
Latvian
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Urdu
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Lengua urdu
Ligurian
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liurdu
Lingala
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urdų
Lithuanian
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Urdu
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Urdu
Low German
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Urdu
Luba-Katanga
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Kiurdu
Luo
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Kiurdu
Luyia
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урду
Macedonian
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Урдуски јазик
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Kyiurdu
Machame
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Ihurdu
Makhuwa-Meetto
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Chiuldu
Makonde
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Ordò
Malagasy
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Fiteny urdu
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Bahasa Urdu
Malay
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ഉർദു
Malayalam
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ഉറുദു
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Urdu
Maltese
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Reo Urdu
Maori
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उर्दू
Marathi
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उर्दू भाषा
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nkʉtʉ́k ɔ́ɔ̄ lurdu
Masai
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Kĩurdu
Meru
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Urdu-gí
Min Nan Chinese
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ourdou
Morisyen
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Urdu
Mundang
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Urduǁî gowab
Nama
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उर्दु
Nepali
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उर्दू
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उर्दू भाषा
Newari
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urdugiella
Northern Sami
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Urdugiella
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isi-Udu
North Ndebele
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Urdu
Norwegian
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urdu
Norwegian Bokmål
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urdu
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Urdu
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Thok udoni
Nuer
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Oru-Urudu
Nyankole
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Ordo
Occitan
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ଉର୍ଦ୍ଦୁ
Odia
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Afaan Urdu
Oromo
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اردو
Pashto
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اوردو ژبه
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اردو
Persian
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زبان اردو
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Lenga urdu
Piedmontese
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urdu
Polish
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Język urdu
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urdu
Portuguese
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Língua urdu
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ਉਰਦੂ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
Punjabi
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Urdu simi
Quechua
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urdu
Romanian
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Limba urdu
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urdu
Romansh
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Kiurdu
Rombo
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Inyeyurudu
Rundi
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урду
Russian
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Урду
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Kyiurdu
Rwa
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Kiurdu
Samburu
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Ûrdu
Sango
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Ishiwuludi
Sangu
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Urdu
Scots
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Urdu
Scottish Gaelic
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urdu
Sena
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Урду
Serbian
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Urdu
Serbo-Croatian
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Kiuldu
Shambala
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chiUrdu
Shona
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උර්දු
Sinhala
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urdčina
Slovak
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Urdčina
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urdujščina
Slovenian
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Olu-urudu
Soga
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Urduu
Somali
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Se-urdu
Southern Sotho
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urdu
Spanish
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Urdu
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Swedish
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Urdu
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Urdu
Swiss German
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ⵜⵓⵔⴷⵓⵜ
Tachelhit
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Kiurdu
Taita
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Урду
Tajik
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Забони урду
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உருது
Tamil
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Urdu senni
Tasawaq
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Урду
Tatar
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ఉర్దూ
Telugu
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ఉర్దూ భాష
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Kiurdu
Teso
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อูรดู
Thai
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ภาษาอูรดู
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ཝུའུ་ཏུའུ་སྐད།
Tibetan
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ኡርዱኛ
Tigre
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ኡርዱኛ
Tigrinya
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lea fakaʻetiu
Tongan
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Urdu
Tswana
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Urduca
Turkish
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урду
Ukrainian
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Урду
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Urdušćina
Upper Sorbian
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اردو
Urdu
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ئوردو تىلى
Uyghur
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Ɔdu
Vai
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Tiếng Uđu
Vietnamese
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Tiếng Urdu
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Kyiurdu
Vunjo
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Urdu
Walser
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Wrdw
Welsh
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Oerdoe
Western Frisian
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Urdu
Xhosa
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nulutú
Yangben
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אורדו
Yiddish
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Èdè Udu
Yoruba
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Urdu senni
Zarma
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Vah Vuhwjduh
Zhuang
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isi-Urdu
Zulu