Um, What countries speak Urdu?

[rex1030]

I know this post is a testament to my own ignorance, but what countries speak Urdu? I have never heard of that language.

[adnanamir]

Hi,

rex1030 Urdu is a big language of South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladash, Srilanka, and most of the peoples living in Arab countries can understand Urdu, if you have listen about Boolywood (Booliwood is at 2nd after Hoolywood. Hoilywood made movies in English and boolywood made movies in Hindi/Urdu)...then you know that all the movies made in boolywood are in Urdu but the difference is this that most of the peoples call Urdu is as Hindi so the Urdu and Hindi is more or less same.

Thanks,
Eddy.

[starz_chazer]

Adding to moderator Urdu is the national language of Pakistan

[virtualahmad]

Just to add a little to this...

Hindi is spoken very similar to Urdu, however the 2 languages are written completely different.  Its like English and Arabic... completely different characters.

[ansari]

Just to add a little to this...

Pure Urdu and pure Hindi are totaly different languages spoken and written. Languages we use today is mix of english , urdu and hindi that's why these are so similer spoken.

[ahmerkhan]

I know this post is a testament to my own ignorance, but what countries speak Urdu? I have never heard of that language.

I am curious, why people don't use GOOGLE.

Thanks God we also have Wiki 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu

[sameo]

Urdu may be official language of Pakistan but mind you only 7% of Pakistan's Population speaks Urdu.

[smht]

Urdu language is a combination of Hindi, Sindhi, Persian, Arabic, some other south Asian languages, This language was born to communicate multinational personals later on it gets an impact of popularity and become language of Royal Family due to its familiarity.