User:Urdunation

" Now time has come to evolve a nation based on Urdu Language called Urdu Nation. By definition a person who can speak in Urdu is a member of Urdu Nation " ( Nadeem Ahmed )

There are more than 250 million Urdu Speakers in the world. Almost all Pakistanis can speak in Urdu. The fact is that most of the Indians who claim that they are speaking Hindi actually are speaking Urdu and writing this language i.e, Urdu, in Dewnagri Script. Bollywood is almost 100% Urdu

Once Muhammed Ali Jinnah said: " Let me make it clear that the national language of Pakistanis going to be Urdu and no other language. Without one state language no nation can remain tied up solidly together "

The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu the universal language and symbol of the cultural andpolitical idnetity of the muslim communities of India and pakistan.The movement began with the fall of Mughal empire in the mid 19th century fuelled by the Aligarh movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Urdu developed as local Indo-Aryan dialects, came under the influence of the Muslim courts, that ruled South Asia from the early thirteenth century. Its Indic vocabulary has been enriched by borrowings from Arabic, Persian, Turkish, English and other Indian languages

The term Urdu came into use when Shah Jahan built the Red Fort in Delhi in 1639 A.D. The word Urdu itself comes from a Turkic word Ordu, which means "Camp", "Tent" or "Army", from which English also gets the word "Horde". Hence Urdu is sometimes called "Lashkari zaban"

Urdu continued as one of the many languages in North West India. In 1947, Urdu was established as the national language of Pakistan in the hope that this move would unite and homogenise the various ethnic groups of the new nation

Shaukat Ali and Maulana Maududi emphasised the knowledge of Urdu as essential for ordinary and religious Muslims

The contemporary Indo-Iranian languages form the largest sub-branch of Indo-European, with more than one billion speakers in total, stretching from Europe (Romani) and the Caucasus (Ossetian) to Xinjiang (Sariqoli) and East India or Bangladesh. SIL in a 2005 estimate counts a total of 308 varieties, the largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu, ca. 540 million), Bengali (ca. 200 million), Punjabi (ca. 80 million), Marathi and Persian (ca. 70 million each), Gujarati (ca. 45 million), Pashto (40 million), Oriya (ca. 30 million)Kurdish (ca. 40 million) and Sindhi (ca. 20 million )

The article on Urdu in the International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics contains the following quotation: The growing popularity of Urdu mushaira (poetic symposia) and literary conferences in the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, Canada, and a number of Middle Eastern and African countries has led to the emergence of a large number of literary organisations and publications which reflect the spread of Urdu as an international language. It would be regrettable if this article with its emphasis on economic power and numbers, contributed in however small a measure to the destruction of such delightful innocence. May Urdu with its poetic symposia and literary organisations become evermore international. The world would be a better place if all expansion was through such charming means

George Weber mentions Urdu/Hindi as the 10th most influential language of the world and 2nd among the top language with respect to the number of speakers