Learn Urdu - Introduction

Introduction

When we hear the word URDU, it simply comes in our mind that ohhh that sweetest language. Amir Khusrow used to write his poetry in Urdu language. At the time of Amir Khusrow Urdu was not a language, it was just a dialect or tongue and its technique (Shaili) was Braj.

Most of the people has misconception that Urdu is a Muslim or Islamic language as its technique is like Arabic, but Urdu was developed as a language at the time of King Shahjahan. In his army there were people of different languages are present like: Turkey, Farsi, Arabic etc. So a language was required at that time to communicate between the different languages of people. That’s the reason Urdu comes in existence. First it was called “Lashkari language” as it was developed to communicate in between people of Shahjahan’s Lashkar (Army), then named as Hindustani – Hindi and then finally named as Urdu. Wali Deccani of Aurangabad was the first writer of developed Urdu language.

It contains vocabulary of various languages like Hindi and English. It’s technique is similar to Arabic and it is written and read from right to left.

By,

Aabid Husain Nagori

M.A. (Urdu)