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Roman Urdu also holds significance among the Christians of Pakistan and North India. Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places ...
Urdu Name Roman Urdu Name Remarks Flax seeds: السی: Aalsi Star anise: بادیان : Baadyan Ginger: ادرک: Adrak Grated or paste Mango powder: آمچور: Amchoor Dried unripe mango slices or powder Pakistani pickles: اچار: Achar Different types of pickles Parsley: جعفری: Jafari Carom seed اجوائن: Ajwain Emblica ...
Of these, 6.28 million are in Pakistan. [4] According to Brian Spooner, [5] Literacy for most Baloch-speakers is not in Balochi, but in Urdu in Pakistan and Persian in Afghanistan and Iran. Even now very few Baloch read Balochi, in any of the countries, even though the alphabet in which it is printed is essentially identical to Persian and Urdu.
Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan's national poet who conceived the idea of Pakistan. Pakistan has literature in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, Balochi, Persian, English, and many other languages. [9] The Pakistan Academy of Letters is a large literary community that promotes literature and poetry in Pakistan and abroad. [10]
When Pakistan was created in 1947, despite Punjabi being the majority language in West Pakistan and Bengali the majority in East Pakistan and Pakistan as whole, English and Urdu were chosen as the official languages. The selection of Urdu was due to its association with South Asian Muslim nationalism and because the leaders of the new nation ...
Afghanistan is a linguistically diverse nation, with upwards of 40 distinct languages. [3] [ Note 1] However, Dari [Note 2] and Pashto are two of the most prominent languages in the country, and have shared official status under various governments of Afghanistan.
Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India.It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2]
Shahmukhi (Punjabi: شاہ مُکھی, pronounced [ʃäː(ɦ)˦.mʊ.kʰiː], lit. ' from the Shah's or king's mouth '; Gurmukhi: ਸ਼ਾਹਮੁਖੀ) is the right-to-left abjad-based script developed from the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for the Punjabi language varieties, predominantly in Punjab, Pakistan.