Langenesis

Indo-European family

Urdu

1600 CE – today Living

Urdu (1600 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → … → Shauraseni Apabhramsha → Old Hindi → Urdu.

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Speakers
70M (70,000,000)
ISO 639-3
urd
Glottocode
urdu1245

Persianised register of Hindustani, mutually intelligible with Hindi in everyday speech. Literary Urdu developed from Dakhni and Rekhta (16th–18th c.); national language of Pakistan.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Shauraseni Prakritc. 300 BCE – 600 CE
  6. Shauraseni Apabhramshac. 600 CE – 1200 CE
  7. Old Hindic. 1100 CE – 1600 CE
  8. Urdu1600 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Old Hindi.

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