Urdu

Urdu is a name of one of the languages which is spoken in South Asia. It is mainly spoken in Pakistan and is an official language of the country. It is also spoken by fewer people in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh and therefore it is also an official language of India. A total of about 104 million people speak the Urdu language.

History of Urdu: As Mongol hordes swept across Central Asia in the middle ages, a new word developed in several languages. The Mongol military camp was known in Turkish as ordo, is a Turkic word meaning Lashkar (Army), in English as horde and in Tatar as urdu. The descendants of the Mongols of the early barbarians, the Mughals, settled in the subcontinent where they became on e of the world's most renowned patrons of beautiful art and architecture. Their royal encampments retained the Tatar word , Urdu, which became the word for the language spoken in the military camp. Since this language had been used by the Army in Mughal Era it had been given the name Urdu. So wherever the Mughal Army moved it has adopted the different words from languages of different regions of the Indian subcontinent. Mainly, words used in Urdu are from Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. However the origin of this language itself pre-dates the Mughals.

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