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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.
