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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.