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Urdu
?
(
Urdu
:
??????
,
Urd?
,
pronounced
[?r?d?u]
(
listen
)
), forby said
Lashkari
(
?????
?l??k?ri)
[9]
, is the heidmaist leid that is spak in
Pakistan
. It is in mony weys seemilar tae
Hindi
whan spak (the twa is mutually intelligable) it haes a different writin seestem that's taen frae the
Arabic
. There's 60-80 million native speakers, an 160 million tot.
^Nastaliq:
See
Inglis
Wikipedia:
"Nastaliq"
.
^V/W:
^Hamza:
In the Urdu, hamza ? is silent in aw its forms apairt fae whan it is uised as hamza-e-izafat. The main hamza ? uiss in the Urdu is fur tae indicate a vowel cluster. In Urdu words, Hamza ? is aye attatcht ? tae a form resemmlin the Arabic ? alef maksura [citation needit].
^Ayn:
Ayn ? in its initial ?? an final ?? poseition is uisually silent and is replaced by the forerinnin or follaein vowel soun.
^Arabic Ha:
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