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Learn about the Urdu script, a modification of the Persian alphabet derived from the Arabic script. See the 39 or 40 letters, their names, forms, and Unicode values.
InPage is a software developed by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd. in 1994 for creating documents in Urdu and other languages using Nastaliq script. It supports WYSIWYG display, Unicode fonts and has been used in Pakistan and India.
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
Nastaliq is a calligraphic hand used for Persian, Urdu, Kashmiri and other languages written in Perso-Arabic script. Learn about its origin, development, characteristics and variations from this comprehensive article.
Learn about the history and evolution of Urdu keyboard layouts for computers and typewriters. Find out how Urdu is encoded and processed in Unicode and other systems.
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in South Asia, with 230 million speakers worldwide. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English, and has a Persianised register and a rich literary heritage.
Learn how to transcribe Hindi and Urdu vowels using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. See the key, examples, and English approximations for each vowel sound.
Learn about the Khowar alphabet, a right-to-left script based on Urdu and Persian, used for the Khowar language. See the list of Khowar letters, their pronunciation, and examples of words and sentences.