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Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in South Asia, and is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also officially recognized in India as a regional language. It is related to Hindi, but has a different script style and uses more Persian and Arabic vocabulary. Urdu is spoken by nearly 70 million people as a first language. It has its roots in Proto-Indo-Aryan, and evolved from various languages, including Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic.
Urdu language is a member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European family of languages. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English. Urdu is spoken as a first language by nearly 70 million people. It was heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian as well as Turkish. Urdu shares its origins with Hindi, but the written portions of the languages are quite different from one another, which have largely contributed to their status as separate languages rather than dialects. Additionally, throughout the history of the language, Urdu has been referred to by several other names: Hindi, Hindavi, Rekhta, Urdu-e-Muallah, Dakhini, Moors, and Dehlavi.
Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken mainly in Myanmar, where it is an official language and the native tongue of the majority ethnic group. It is also spoken by indigenous peoples in Bangladesh and India. The Burmese language has an alphabet with eleven vowels and thirty-two consonants, which is derived from the Pahlavi script of South India. It is not ideographic like Chinese, and belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Burmese is quite different from other Southeast Asian languages like Thai, Lao and Khmer in terms of its phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and writing.
