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Urdu
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Ur·du / ˈoŏrdoō; ˈər-/ • n. a form of Hindustani written in Persian script, with many loanwords from Persian and Arabic. It is an official language of Pakistan and is widely used in India and elsewhere.
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Urdu Media in Modern India: Struggle for Reviving the Past -.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/20/2007; 700+ words
; Urdu Media in Modern India: Struggle for Reviving the...attitudes and behavioral patterns of the people. Urdu media has contributed immensely to national independence, popularizing Urdu language and literature, inculcating democratic...
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Urdu - Richest in Saintly Literature.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 2/25/2008; 700+ words
; Urdu - Richest in Saintly Literature By K K Khullar...PTI Feature) -- Very few people know that Urdu is a vehicle of secular thought, even today...Mohammad Uzair there are more than 400 books in Urdu on Indian Religions other than Islam. It...
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Urdu schools face extinction
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/20/2006; 700+ words
; NEW DELHI, India, Dec 20 -- URDU FACES existential crisis in Bhopal, once a...language- five functional schools for five lakh Urdu speaking population! In sharp contrast, Khandwa has 55 Urdu medium schools including high school and higher...
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Urdu, struggling to survive?
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 5/18/2007; 700+ words
; Urdu, struggling to survive? New Delhi, May...against the East India Company rule in 1857, Urdu is struggling to survive with not many of...generation keen to learn it as a subject. Urdu, born in Delhi during the Mughal period...
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Urdu Wing Mushaira creates history.
Newspaper article from: Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman); 12/6/2009; 700+ words
; ...4" The Annual Mushaira organised by the Urdu Wing of the ISC recently became a memorable event for the Urdu aficionados. Rais Ansari, the poet who...poets and very well known from the world of Urdu poetry including Nida Fazli, Waseem Bareilvi...
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Urdu Wing mushaira promises to be a star-studded affair.
Newspaper article from: Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman); 10/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...as preparations for the Indian Social Club Urdu Wing annual mushaira gets into full swing. The ISC Urdu Wing Mushaira 2009, to be held on November...Fazli among others to regale connoisseurs of Urdu in Muscat. Announcing the event Anil Wadhwa...
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Urdu language is becoming a popular public demand in West Bengal
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 3/13/2006; 605 words
; ...Kolkata, March 13 -- With the increasing usage of Urdu language in films, radio and television programmes...momentum in West Bengal. In an initiative to promote Urdu language, the West Bengal Urdu Academy has set up study centers in the State...
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Urdu gaining popularity in USA: Warsi
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/16/2006; 588 words
; NEW DELHI, India, Dec 16 -- URDU HAS gained popularity and more Americans...understanding Muslims has also brought attention to Urdu, which has a vast Islamic literature...Ramoozi Sanskriti Bhawan on Thursday. The MP Urdu Academy organised the lecture. "The government...
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Hindi/Urdu I and II approved for Tufts U. language requirement
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Experimental College courses in Hindi/Urdu I and II will satisfy the first two of...and Tufts University plans to add Hindi/Urdu III for the 2003-04 academic year to...the final course in the triplet. Hindi/Urdu I will be offered during the fall 2002...
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Baba-e-Urdu Moulvi Abdul Haq remembered.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 8/16/2007; 663 words
; ...Karachi, August 16 (PPI) -- Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Pakistan on Thursday paid rich tributes to Baba-e-Urdu Moulvi Abdul Haq on occasion of his 46th death anniversary at his mausoleum in Federal Urdu University of Arts Science Technology (FUUAST...
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Urdu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Urdu , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo...of languages. The official tongue of Pakistan, Urdu is also one of the 15 languages recognized in the 1950 Indian constitution. Urdu has been described as the written or literary variant...
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HINDI-URDU
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
HINDI-URDU. A composite name that emphasizes the common linguistic features of HINDI and URDU , languages that have the same general pronunciation...script, Hindi being written in Devanagari, Urdu in Perso-Arabic. They differ largely because...
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URDU
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
URDU. An Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent...Arabic script. Closely related to Hindi, Urdu has a similar pronunciation and grammar but...the US. See BANGLADESH , HINDI , HINDI-URDU , INDIAN ENGLISH , PAKISTANI ENGLISH .
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Pakistan
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraki,Pashtu, Urdu (official),Balochi, Hindko, Brahui...Pakistan included the Morning News and the Urdu-language dailies Jang and Anjam. By...including those published in English, Urdu, and in regional languages; and the press...
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Ahmed Ali
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Ali could not read poetry or fiction in Urdu, even the classic fable collection The...Allahabad, and Agra universities. Choosing Urdu, the language of the Progressive Writers...introspection helped to direct the modern Urdu short story. He followed the joint fiction...
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