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Learn Urdu Lesson 1 - The Urdu alphabet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08A9EebaiXU

Urdu Alphabet Book - Interesting Presentation

Dinesh Verma

Chanda Books, 25-May-2011 - Urdu language - 40 pages

This book introduces the basic alphabet of Urdu. For each letter of the Urdu alphabet, it provides the closest English pronunciation, the name of the alphabet and a word beginning with that letter, or a word containing that letter. It also provides a basic introduction to Urdu numbers and the changing forms of the letters in the words. The colorful book with interesting pictures is a good way to get familiar with the script of Urdu.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ZplHpfHBDOMC

Learn Urdu Basics You Need in 30 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npXBm2nvLfI

Learn Urdu language for beginners (1000 sentences) through English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_XTOS9_XDQ

Learn Urdu - Knol Book

Authors

• KVSS N.Rao
• Narayana Rao

Published

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Version 5

Last edited: Feb 19, 2011

Exported: Apr 24, 2012

Original URL: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/1zb6eis38d7or/29

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• Understanding Facts About Urdu - The Language Of Courtesy
  
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• Learn Urdu - Videos
  
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• Lessons to Learn Urdu - Web Pages and Websites
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• The Memory Guru of India- Learn Urdu in 2 Days
  اردو دو دیں میں سیکھو
• Urdu - English Dictionary -  http://www.urduword.com/search.php
• Arabic, Farsi and Urdu Languages - A Comparison
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Arabic, Persian (Farsi or Parsi) and Urdu Languages - Comparison

The script is similar with some differences.

But the languages are different.

Persian is spoken by 110 million people worldwide and official language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Arabic is a language of approximately 246 million native speakers and official language of more than 20 countries

In script Urdu is closer to Persian. Urdu is written right to left in a modified Persian-Arabic script called Nastaliq. As language Urdu is closer to Hindi as both were developed from Khari boli the language of Northern India.

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References

Differences between Arabic, Persian and Urdu Scripts

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100131122747AA8ajDQ

How to choose Arabic vs Farsi to Study

http://learning-farsi.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_choose_arabic_vs_farsi_to_study

Difference between Hindi and Urdu

http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/35824.aspx

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Language Learning Resources

Learning Hindi

http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/topics/learning-hindi.aspx  (34 articles)

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Related Knols

Difference URDU , ARABIC and FARSI

The Memory Guru of India- Learn Urdu in 2 Days
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Some more resources

Urdu and Parallel Grammar Project.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W02/W02-1203.pdf

original knol - http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/arabic-persian-farsi-or-parsi-and-urdu/2utb2lsm2k7a/ 2342