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InPage is a desktop publishing software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian company, for creating documents in Urdu and other languages using Nastaliq script. It was developed in 1994 and has a large ligature library and WYSIWYG display.
Learn about the history, script and letters of the Urdu alphabet, a modification of the Persian alphabet derived from the Arabic script. See examples of Nastaʿlīq, the dominant style of Urdu calligraphy, and compare it with other abjad scripts.
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.
Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms.In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. [1]
Google Translate is a free online service that translates text, speech, images and websites between 243 languages. Learn about its development from a statistical machine translation to a neural machine translation, its various functions and features, and its usage and impact.
Learn how Persian influenced the formation and development of Urdu, a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and India. See a sample comparison of Iranian Persian and formal Urdu texts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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.
A list of English words that have been borrowed from Hindi and Urdu, two registers of the Hindustani language. Many words have Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, or Turkic roots, and some entered English during the colonial period.