Urdu
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| Urdu اردو | |
| Reading & Writing | |
| Introduction Alphabet |
Nasta'liq Transliteration |
| Lessons | |
| Basic Elementary |
Intermediate Advanced |
| Exercises | |
| Reference | |
| Vocabulary Grammar |
Dialects Linguistic Terms |
| Related Wikibooks | |
| Hindi |
Persian |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Appendices |
Random lessons |
| II | This is a Category II Language. |
Welcome to the Urdu Wikibook, a free textbook for learning Urdu
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Introduction
Urdu is one of the two official languages of Pakistan. IIt is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of five Indian states. There are between 60 and 80 million native speakers of standard Urdu. According to the SIL Ethnologue (1999 data), Urdu/Hindi is the fifth most spoken language in the world.
To read more about the history of Urdu: History
Please feel free to use the English Wiktionary's Urdu language Category as a reference for these courses.
Writing and Pronunciation
- Alphabet — describe complexities of Arabic based bibliography
- Nasta'liq
- Roman Urdu Alphabet
- Transliteration
- Aspirated Consonants
- Retroflex Consonants
Reference
Grammar 
Vocabulary
- Basic Phrases
- Colors
- Rooms and Furniture
- Days of the Week
- Months of the Year
- Seasons
- Greetings
- Interrogatives
- Numbers
- Seasons
- Time
- Duration
- Transportation
- Emergency
- Directions
- Restaurant
- Directions
- Shopping
Lessons
- Basic Urdu
- Elemetary Urdu
- Past tense
- Future tense
- Describing activities and storytelling
- Counterfactuals
- Intermediate Urdu
- Advanced Urdu
- Exercises
- Appendices
External Resources
- Hindi Urdu Phrasebook
- Urdu Language phonetic keyboard
- Urdu extension for Office and Windows applications
