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Urdu is the state language of Pakistan, spoken by 10 million Pakistanis as mother tongue. Worldwide, about 60 million mother tongue speakers exist. Counting second language speakers too 104 million people speak Urdu. The language is spoken in these countries:

Urdu is closely related to Hindi but is written in an extended Arabic alphabet rather than in Devanagari. Urdu also has more loans from Arabic and Persian than Hindi has.

Most speakers of Urdu are Muslims.

Language Codes

ISO 639-1: ur
ISO 639-2: urd
SIL: URD