The standard Urdu script is a modified version of the Perso-Arabic script and has its origins in the 13th century Iran. It is also related to Shahmukhi, used for the Punjabi language … See more

The Urdu script is an abjad script derived from the modern Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. As an abjad, the Urdu script only shows consonants and long … See more

Urdu uses the same subset of diacritics used in Arabic based on Persian conventions. Urdu also uses Persian names of the … See more

In the early days of computers, Urdu was not properly represented on any code page. One of the earliest code pages to represent Urdu was … See more

Urdu is written in the Nastaliq style (Persian: نستعلیق Nastaʿlīq). The Nastaliq calligraphic writing style began as a Persian mixture of the See more

The Urdu language has ten vowels and ten nasalized vowels. Each vowel has four forms depending on its position: initial, middle, final and … See more

Iẓāfat is a syntactical construction of two nouns, where the first component is a determined noun, and the second is a determiner. See more