Tips, guides, and insights for learning Chinese
Filtered by topic: urdu
Show all articlesUrdu is written in Nastaliq — a cursive, right-to-left script descended from Persian calligraphy. It looks impossibly ornate at first. Here is a 6-week plan that takes you from zero to reading basic Urdu text.
Spoken Urdu and spoken Hindi are mutually intelligible. Written Urdu and written Hindi are completely different. The question 'are they the same language?' has a political, a linguistic, and a practical answer — and they all differ.
Urdu has one of South Asia's richest poetic traditions. Poetry is not just literary — it permeates Pakistani and Indian Muslim social life. This guide introduces the key cultural vocabulary around Urdu poetry.