Urdu in India

Speakers

50,772,631

Type

Location

Urdu in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Urdu in India

Size

50,772,631

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Telangana

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Extended Corpora is available in Urdu language in the form of books, Newspapers, Magazines and other publications.

https://www.urducouncil.nic.in/pdf-book

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/313215

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/376442

https://archive.org/details/booksbylanguage_urdu

https://www.cpsglobal.org/books/mwk/urdu

https://indianculture.gov.in/indian-culture-repository?search_api_fulltext=Urdu+books#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Urdu%2Bbooks&gsc.sort=

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos on Cultures and traditions, songs, plays, movies, etc. are available in urdu language
https://archive.org/search?query=urdu+&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22

https://www.urducouncil.nic.in/video-gallery

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Songs, speeches, stories and lessons are available in Urdu language.
https://archive.org/search?query=urdu+&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22

https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/audio/21_urdu/index.htm

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are elaborated dictionaries, grammars and other material available in Urdu langauge.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Grammar_of_Urdu_or_Hindustani.pdf

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/images/PK1983.N2_1999_V1/PK1983.N2_1999_V1.pdf

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-e6qHPbxSdNN29RQkVib093elE/edit?resourcekey=0-rWctDRl-V8cYYBhQ-iotdg

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use
Comments
Urdu is written with Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Size / Number of users

Number of users

50772631
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Language is used for

  • Census data
  • Census surveys
  • Election processes
  • Topographical signs

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

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