By the 16th century, it had developed into a dialect of its own termed Urdu, with a prominent literary culture revolving around the royal court. These rulers spoke Persian and Turkish and wrote their languages in the Arabic Nastaliq script, so when they started speaking Hindi-Urdu, they wrote this new language in the Nastaliq script as well. After the Muslim conquest by Central Asian invaders in the 11th and 12th centuries, the new rulers learned the local language. Urdu originated and was developed in Delhi, India during the Delhi Sultanate. The word Urdu originated from the Turkish word “ Ordu,” which means the army. Urdu is largely made of words taken from the Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit languages. Urdu is the official language of six states of India and the national language of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. In this post, there is a close examination of some of the similarities as well as differences between Arabic and Urdu. The main difference between Urdu and Arabic is their language families Urdu belongs to the Indo-European language family whereas Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. Arabic can be said to be the origin of Urdu. It has influenced many languages such as Persian, Turkish, Malay, Hindi, Urdu, Indonesian, Tagalog, Somali, Swahili, and even Spanish. Qureshi/Arab America Contributing WriterĪrabic is one of the most used languages in the world.
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