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The Urdu keyboard is any keyboard layout for Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution. [1] With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanized compositions have reduced to very few that are compatible with the ...

Urdu is also spoken by large numbers of immigrants and their children in the major urban centres of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia. [139] Along with Arabic, Urdu is among the immigrant languages with the most speakers in Catalonia. [140] Cultural identity

Language portal. Writing portal. The Urdu alphabet ( Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized : urdū harūf-e-tahajjī ), is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Urdu language. It is a modification of the Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. It is the most widely used script in Pakistan being the official ...

Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکِستان [ˈpaːkɪstaːn] ), [d] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان ), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. [16]

Nastaliq (/ ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k /; نَسْتَعْلِیق, Persian: [næsˈtʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəsˈt̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic.