Urdu (language)

Urdu
اُردُو‎
Urdu in Nastaʿlīq script
Pronunciation	[ˈʊrd̪u] ( listen)
Region	Pakistan, India
Ethnicity	Hindustani people and Muhajirs
Native speakers	65 million in India (2007) Second language: 94 million in Pakistan (1999).
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone (Hindi) Western Hindi Hindustani Khariboli Urdu
Writing system	Urdu alphabet Urdu Braille
Signed forms	Indian Signing System (ISS) Signed Urdu
Official status
Official language in	Pakistan  India Bihar Delhi Jammu and Kashmir Telangana Uttar Pradesh West Bengal
Recognised minority language in	Mauritius    Nepal
Regulated by	National Language Promotion Department National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ur
ISO 639-2	urd
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	urdu1245
Linguasphere	59-AAF-q
Areas where Urdu is either official or co-official   Areas where Urdu is neither official nor co-official
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Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/;Urdu: اُردُو‎‎ ALA-LC: Urdū [ˈʊrd̪uː] ( listen), or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised and standardised register language of the Hindustani language. It is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is one of the 22 official languages recognized in the Constitution of India, having official status in the six states of Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal — as well as Delhi.