Why should I study Urdu @ Essa?
Urdu is a living language spoken by around 490 million people around the world and the Urdu community in the UK alone totals about one million speakers. These native speakers will appreciate the fact that you make
the effort to speak to them in their language, whether in the UK or abroad.
Urdu is not simply a practical language spoken on a daily basis, but one that produced great scholarship and poetry. Learning Urdu will also help you to recognise words in Arabic and Persian since many words are common in
all three languages.
A Brief History
The word Urdu is Turkish and means an army or legion. Modern Urdu has taken around 900 years to develop into its' present form and has developed from Turkish, Persian and Arabic. Urdu was the language of the most powerful warriors of central Asia. Wherever these tribes travelled, they would integrate new, foreign words into the Urdu language.
Urdu is written right to left, just like Arabic and Persian. It has 39 basic letters and 13 extra characters; the majority of
which are from Arabic and a smaller amount from Persian. It contains almost all the 'sounds' available in any other
language spoken in the world.
the effort to speak to them in their language, whether in the UK or abroad.
Urdu is not simply a practical language spoken on a daily basis, but one that produced great scholarship and poetry. Learning Urdu will also help you to recognise words in Arabic and Persian since many words are common in
all three languages.
A Brief History
The word Urdu is Turkish and means an army or legion. Modern Urdu has taken around 900 years to develop into its' present form and has developed from Turkish, Persian and Arabic. Urdu was the language of the most powerful warriors of central Asia. Wherever these tribes travelled, they would integrate new, foreign words into the Urdu language.
Urdu is written right to left, just like Arabic and Persian. It has 39 basic letters and 13 extra characters; the majority of
which are from Arabic and a smaller amount from Persian. It contains almost all the 'sounds' available in any other
language spoken in the world.
