Learn Urdu: Urdu alphabet chart and letters
Learning Urdu language
The Urdu language, like the Hebrew and Arabic languages that precede it, reads from Right to Left.
About Urdu
Urdu is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and an official language of Jammu and Kashmir, and an additional official language of Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi. The 2011 Census counted 5.08 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script (Nastaliq), from right to left.
Links
To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Urdu.
- National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language: Ministry of Education: Urdu courses, dictionaries and books
- Maulana Azad National Urdu University: Hyderabad: a central university teaching in Urdu, with distance courses
- Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Urdu and the other languages of India
Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.