Urdu alphabet

Urdu Alphabet اُرْدُو حُرُوفِ تَہَجِّی‌ Urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī
The word Urdū written in the Urdu alphabet
Script type	Abjad
Official script	Pakistan India South Africa^[1]
Languages	Urdu Balti^[2] Shina Khowar Burushaski^[3]
Related scripts
Parent systems	Unicode range	U+0600 to U+06FF U+0750 to U+077F U+FB50 to U+FDFF U+FE70 to U+FEFF
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Urdu alphabet
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written in the Naskh

style.

Usually, bare transliterations of Urdu into the Latin alphabet (called Roman Urdu) omit many phonemic elements that have no equivalent in English or other languages commonly written in the Latin script.

History

The standard Urdu script is a modified version of the

Nastaʻliq

style of Perso-Arabic script.

Despite the invention of the

national newspaper Daily Jang was the first Urdu newspaper to use Nastaʿlīq computer-based composition. There are efforts under way to develop more sophisticated and user-friendly Urdu support on computers and the internet

. Nowadays, nearly all Urdu newspapers, magazines, journals, and periodicals are composed on computers with Urdu software programs.

Other than the

Pakistan's large diaspora, including in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and other places.^[5]

Nastaliq

Urdu is written in the

Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent

, Nastaʻliq became the preferred writing style for Urdu. It is the dominant style in Pakistan and many Urdu writers elsewhere in the world use it. Nastaʿlīq is more cursive and flowing than its Naskh counterpart.

In the Arabic alphabet, and many others derived from it, letters are regarded as having two or three general forms each, based on their position in the word (though Arabic calligraphy can add a great deal of complexity). But the Nastaliq style in which Urdu is written uses more than three general forms for many letters, even in simple non-decorative documents.^[6]

Alphabet

The Urdu script is an

Indo-European language, which requires more precision in vowel sound pronunciation, hence necessitating more memorisation. The number of letters in the Urdu alphabet is somewhat ambiguous and debated.^[7]

Letter names and phonemes

Name^[8]	Forms				IPA	Romanization		Unicode	Order
Urdu Roman Urdu	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial	IPA	ALA-LC^[9]	Hunterian^[10]	Unicode	^[A]	^[12]	^[B]
الف alif	ا	ـا			/ɑː/, /ʔ/, silent^[C]	ā, –	ā, –	U+0627	1	1	1
بے bē	ب	ـب	ـبـ	بـ	/b/	b	b	U+0628	2	2	2
پے pē	پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ	/p/	p	p	U+067E	3	3	3
تے tē	ت	ـت	ـتـ	تـ	/t/	t	t	U+062A	4	4	4
ٹے ṭē	ٹ	ـٹ	ـٹـ	ٹـ	/ʈ/	ṭ	t	U+0679	5	5	5
ثے s̱ē	ث	ـث	ـثـ	ثـ	/s/	s̱	s	U+062B	6	6	6
جيم jīm	ج	ـج	ـجـ	جـ	/d͡ʒ/	j	j	U+062C	7	7	7
چے cē	چ	ـچ	ـچـ	چـ	/t͡ʃ/	c	ch	U+0686	8	8	8
بڑی حے baṛī ḥē	ح	ـح	ـحـ	حـ	/ɦ/	ḥ	h	U+062D	9	9	9
ہٹی حے hutti ḥē	ح	ـح	ـحـ	حـ	/ɦ/	ḥ	h	U+062D	9	9	9
خے k͟hē	خ	ـخ	ـخـ	خـ	/x/	k͟h	kh	U+062E	10	10	10
دال dāl	د	ـد			/d/	d	d	U+062F	11	11	11
ڈال ḍāl	ڈ	ـڈ			/ɖ/	ḍ	d	U+0688	12	12	12
ذال ẕāl	ذ	ـذ			/z/	ẕ	z	U+0630	13	13	13
رے rē	ر	ـر			/r/	r	r	U+0631	14	14	14
ڑے ṛē	ڑ	ـڑ			/ɽ/ ^[D]	ṛ	r	U+0691	15	15	15
زے zē	ز	ـز			/z/	z	z	U+0632	16	16	16
ژے zhē	ژ	ـژ			/ʒ/ ^[E]	zh	zh	U+0698	17	17	17
سین sīn	س	ـس	ـسـ	سـ	/s/	s	s	U+0633	18	18	18
شین shīn	ش	ـش	ـشـ	شـ	/ʃ/	sh	sh	U+0634	19	19	19
صاد ṣwād	ص	ـص	ـصـ	صـ	/s/	ṣ	s	U+0635	20	20	20
ضاد ẓwād	ض	ـض	ـضـ	ضـ	/z/	ẓ	z	U+0636	21	21	21
طوے t̤oʼē	ط	ـط	ـطـ	طـ	/t/	t̤	t	U+0637	22	22	22
ظوے z̤oʼē	ظ	ـظ	ـظـ	ظـ	/z/	z̤	z	U+0638	23	23	23
عین ʻain	ع	ـع	ـعـ	عـ	/ɑː/, /oː/, /eː/, /ʔ/, /ʕ/, silent	ʻ	ʻ ^{[citation needed]}	U+0639	24	24	24
غین g͟hain	غ	ـغ	ـغـ	غـ	/ɣ/	g͟h	gh	U+063A	25	25	25
فے fē	ف	ـف	ـفـ	فـ	/f/	f	f	U+0641	26	26	26
قاف qāf	ق	ـق	ـقـ	قـ	/q/	q	q	U+0642	27	27	27
کاف kāf	ک	ـک	ـکـ	کـ	/k/	k	k	U+06A9	28	28	28
گاف gāf	گ	ـگ	ـگـ	گـ	/ɡ/	g	g	U+06AF	29	29	29
لام lām	ل	ـل	ـلـ	لـ	/l/	l	l	U+0644	30	30	30
میم mīm	م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ	/m/	m	m	U+0645	31	31	31
نون nūn	ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ	/n/, /ɲ/, /ɳ/, /ŋ/	n	n	U+0646	32	32	32
نون غنّہ nūn g͟hunnā	ں ٘	ـں	ـںـ	ںـ	/ ◌̃ / ^[D]	ṉ	n	U+06BA U+0658 ^[F]	^[G]	32a	33
واؤ wāʼo	و	ـو			/ ɔː /	v, ū, u, o, au	w, ū, u, o, au	U+0648	33	33	34
ہے hē	ہ	ـہ	ـہـ	ہـ	/ɦ/, /ɑː/, /eː/	h, ā, e	h, ā, e	U+06C1 ^[H]	34	34	35
چھوٹی ہے choṭī hē	ہ	ـہ	ـہـ	ہـ	/ɦ/, /ɑː/, /eː/	h, ā, e	h, ā, e	U+06C1 ^[H]	34	34a	35
دو چشمی ہے do-cashmī hē	ھ	ـھ	ـھـ	ھـ	/ʰ/ or /ʱ/ ^[D]	h	h	U+06BE	35	34b	36
یے yē	ی	ـی	ـیـ	یـ	/j/, /iː/, /ɑː/	y, ī, á	y, ī, á	U+06CC	36	35	38
بڑی یے baṛī yē	ے	ـے			/ɛː/, /eː/ ^[D]	ai, e	ai, e	U+06D2	37	35b	39
ہمزہ hamzah	ئ	ـئ	ـئـ	ئـ	/ʔ/ or silent ^[I]	ʼ, –, yi	ʼ, –, yi	U+0626		35a	37 ^[J]
ہمزہ hamzah	ء				/ʔ/ or silent ^[I]	ʼ, –, yi	ʼ, –, yi	U+0621		0	37 ^[J]

Footnotes:

^ dictionary order^[11]
^ ^{[citation needed]}
^ At the beginning of a word it can represent another vowel, holding a vowel diacritic that would normally be held by the consonant preceding the vowel, for examble اُردو "Urdu". But the diacritic indicating which vowel is often omitted اردو like other short vowel diacritcs.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d No Urdu word begins with ں, ھ, ڑ, or ے.^{[citation needed]}
^ Used mainly for Persian loanwords.
^ The version shown on the left is U+06BA, which is used only at the end of words. When it is used in the middle of a word it is a diacritic U+0658, which is usually omitted (see below for further information on diacritic omission in Urdu).
^ Not present in dictionary order because it is not used at the beginning of words.
^ Sometimes choṭī hē is used to refer to hey but choṭī hē can also refer to the Arabic / Persian variant, a stylistic variation representing an equivalent letter, but Persian and Arabic usually use U+0647 whereas Urdu uses U+06C1 for gōl hey.^[12] See also: Urdu in Unicode.
hamzah is silent in all its forms except for when it is used as hamzah-e-izafat. The main use of hamzah in Urdu
is to indicate a vowel cluster.

^ ^{[citation needed]}

Additional characters and variations

Arabic Tāʼ marbūṭah

Tāʼ marbūṭah is also sometimes considered the 40th letter of the Urdu alphabet, though it is rarely used except for in certain loan words from Arabic. Tāʼ marbūṭah is regarded as a form of tā, the Arabic version of Urdu tē, but it is not pronounced as such, and when replaced with an Urdu letter in naturalised loan words it is usually replaced with Gol hē.

Table

Table of additional characters and variations
Group Letter ^[A] Name (see: Glossary of key words) Unicode ^[13]^[14]

Nastaliq
^[B] Naskh with
diacritics Roman Urdu or English ^[4]^[12]

Alif آ آ الف مدہ الِف مَدّه
^[12] alif maddah
^[12]^[C] U+0622
alef with madda above ^[14]

Hamza ^[D] ء ء ہمزہ ہَمْزه
^[12] hamzah
U+0621
hamza ^[14]

___ ___ hamza on the line

ٔ ــٔـ ___ ___ hamza diacritic
^[C]^[E] U+0654
Hamza Above

ئ ئ ہمزہ ہَمْزه
^[12] hamzah
U+0626
yeh with hamza above ^[14]

___ ___ yē hamza / alif hamza

ۓ ۓ ___ ___ baṛī yē hamza U+06D3
yeh barree with hamza above ^[13]

ؤ ؤ واوِ مَہْمُوز واوِ مَہْمُوز
^[12] vāv-e mahmūz
^[12] U+0624
waw with hamza above ^[14]

ۂ ‍ۂ ۂ ـۂ ___ ___ U+06C2
heh goal with hamza above ^[13]
or U+06C1 + U+0654

Arabic ^[F] ۃ ‍ۃ ۃ ـۃ
Arabic:
تاء مربوطة

Arabic:
تَاء مَرْبُوطَة
tāʼ marbūṭah
"bound ta" U+06C3
teh marbuta goal ^[13]

ة ‍ة ة ـة U+0629
teh marbuta ^[14]

ت ت
Arabic:
تاء مفتوحة

Arabic:
تَاء مَفْتُوحَة
tāʼ maftūḥah
"open ta" U+062A
Teh

Footnotes:

^ Left: Urdu Nastaliq. Right: Arabic Naskh or modern style.

^ The Nastaliq text will display in a different style if there is not an appropriate font installed on the machine.

^ ^a ^b Most vowel diacritics are omitted in most Urdu writing, but Urdu writing usually does distinguish alif mad, and include hamza over bari ye, gol he, and wow. For example, alif mad and bare alif in آزادی - "āzādī", ɑ:zɑ:d̪i, freedom
^[15] - are distinguished in most contexts.

^ See: Hamzah in Nastaliq.

^ See: Hamzah in Nastaliq.

^ see: Arabic Tāʼ marbūṭah above.

Hamza in Nastaliq

Hamza can be difficult to recognise in Urdu handwriting and fonts designed to replicate it, closely resembling two dots above as featured in
ق Qaf, whereas in Arabic and Geometric fonts it is more distinct and closely resembles the western form of the numeral 2
(two).

Digraphs

The digraphs of aspirated consonants are as follows.
No. Digraph^[9] Transcription^[9] IPA Example

1 بھ bh [bʱ] بھاری

2 پھ ph [pʰ] پھول

3 تھ th [tʰ] تھم

4 ٹھ ṭh [ʈʰ] ٹھنڈا

5 جھ jh [d͡ʒʱ] جھاڑی

6 چھ ch [t͡ʃʰ] چھتری

7 دھ dh [dʱ] دھوبی

8 ڈھ ḍh [ɖʱ] ڈھول

9 رھ rh [rʱ] تیرھواں

10 ڑھ ṛh [ɽʱ] اڑھائی

11 کھ kh [kʰ] کھانسی

12 گھ gh [ɡʱ] گھوڑا

13 لھ lh [lʱ] دولھا (alternative of دُلہا)

14 مھ mh [mʱ] تمھیں (alternative of تمہیں)

15 نھ nh [nʱ] ننھا (though arguably just a consonant cluster)

16 وھ wh [ʋʱ] وھاب (though arguably just a consonant cluster)

17 یھ yh [jʱ] ^{[example needed]}

Differences from Persian alphabet

Urdu has more letters added to the Perso-Arabic base to represent sounds not present in Persian, which already has additional letters added to the Arabic base itself to represent sounds not present in Arabic. The letters added are shown in the table below:

Letter IPA

ٹ

/ʈ/

ڈ

/ɖ/

ڑ

/ɽ/

ں
/◌̃/

ے
/ɛ:/ or /e:/.

A separate do-chashmi-
/ʱ/. This letter is mainly used as part of the multitude of digraphs, detailed in above sub-section. In addition to these letters, Shahmukhi adds 2 consonants on top of Urdu alphabet to write Punjabi, and Saraiki
further adds 4 more consonants.

Retroflex letters

ط t̤oʼē.^[17] It is commonly and erroneously assumed that ṭāʾ itself was used to indicate retroflex consonants because of it being an emphatic alveolar consonant that Arabic scribes thought approximated the Hindustani retroflexes.^{[citation needed]} In modern Urdu, called to'e is always pronounced as a dental, not a retroflex. ^{[citation needed}
]

Vowels

The Urdu language has ten vowels and ten nasalized vowels. Each vowel has four forms depending on its position: initial, middle, final and isolated. Like in its parent Arabic alphabet, Urdu vowels are represented using a combination of digraphs and diacritics. Alif, Waw, Ye, He and their variants are used to represent vowels.

Vowel chart

Urdu does not have standalone vowel letters. Short vowels (a, i, u) are represented by optional diacritics (zabar, zer, pesh) upon the preceding consonant or a placeholder consonant (alif, ain, or hamzah) if the syllable begins with the vowel, and long vowels by consonants alif, ain, ye, and wa'o as matres lectionis, with disambiguating diacritics, some of which are optional (zabar, zer, pesh), whereas some are not (madd, hamzah). Urdu does not have short vowels at the end of words. This is a table of Urdu vowels:

Romanization Pronunciation Final Middle Initial

a /ə/ N/A ـَ اَ

ā /aː/ ـَا، ـَی، ـَہ ـَا آ

i /ɪ/ N/A ـِ اِ

ī /iː/ ـِى ـِیـ اِی

e /eː/ ـے‬ ـیـ اے

ai /ɛː/ ـَے‬ ـَیـ اَے

u /ʊ/ N/A ـُ اُ

ū /uː/ ـُو اُو

o /oː/ ـو او

au /ɔː/ ـَو اَو

Alif

Alif is the first letter of the Urdu alphabet, and it is used exclusively as a vowel. At the beginning of a word, alif can be used to represent any of the short vowels: اب ab, اسم ism, اردو Urdū. For long ā at the beginning of words alif-mad is used: آپ āp, but a plain alif in the middle and at the end: بھاگنا bhāgnā.

Wāʾo

Wāʾo is used to render the vowels "ū", "o", "u" and "au" ([uː], [oː], [ʊ] and [ɔː] respectively), and it is also used to render the
silent wāʾo, and is only present in words loaned from Persian.^[18]

Ye

Ye is divided into two variants: choṭī ye ("little ye") and baṛī ye ("big ye").
Choṭī ye (ی) is written in all forms exactly as in Persian. It is used for the long vowel "ī" and the consonant "y".
Baṛī ye (ے) is used to render the vowels "e" and "ai" (/eː/ and /ɛː/ respectively). Baṛī ye is distinguishable in writing from choṭī ye only when it comes at the end of a word/ligature. Additionally, Baṛī ye is never used to begin a word/ligature, unlike choṭī ye.

Letter's name Final Form Middle Form Initial Form Isolated Form

چھوٹی يے
Choṭī ye ـی ـیـ یـ ی

بڑی يے
Baṛī ye ـے ے

The 2 he's

He is divided into two variants: gol he ("round he") and do-cašmi he ("two-eyed he").
Gol he (ہ) is written round and zigzagged, and can impart the "h" (/ɦ/) sound anywhere in a word. Additionally, at the end of a word, it can be used to render the long "a" or the "e" vowels (/ɑː/ or /eː/), which also alters its form slightly (on modern digital writing systems, this final form is achieved by writing two he's consecutively).
Do-cašmi he (ھ) is written as in Arabic Naskh style (as a loop), in order to create the aspirate consonants and write Arabic words.

Letter's name Final Form Middle Form Initial Form Isolated Form

گول ہے
Gol he ـہ ـہـ ہـ ہ

دو چشمی ہے
Do-cašmi he ـھ ـھـ ھـ ھ

Ayn

Ayn in its initial and final position is silent in pronunciation and is replaced by the sound of its preceding or succeeding vowel.

Nun Ghunnah

superscript
V symbol above the ن٘.
Examples:

Form Urdu Transcription

Orthography ں ṉ

End form میں maiṉ

Middle form کن٘ول kaṉwal

Diacritics

Urdu uses the same subset of diacritics used in
Persian names of the diacritics instead of Arabic names. Commonly used diacritics are zabar (Arabic fatḥah), zer (Arabic kasrah), pesh (Arabic dammah) which are used to clarify the pronunciation of vowels, as shown above. Jazam (ـْـ, Arabic sukun) is used to indicate a consonant cluster and tashdid (ـّـ, Arabic shaddah) is used to indicate a gemination, although it is never used for verbs, which require double consonants to be spelled out separately. Other diacritics include khari zabar (Arabic dagger alif), do zabar (Arabic fathatan) which are found in some common Arabic
loan words. Other Arabic diacritics are also sometimes used though very rarely in loan words from Arabic. Zer-e-izafat and hamzah-e-izafat are described in the next section.
Other than common diacritics, Urdu also has special diacritics, which are often found only in dictionaries for the clarification of irregular pronunciation. These diacritics include kasrah-e-majhool, fathah-e-majhool, dammah-e-majhool, maghnoona, ulta jazam, alif-e-wavi and some other very rare diacritics. Among these, only maghnoona is used commonly in dictionaries and has a Unicode representation at U+0658. Other diacritics are only rarely written in printed form, mainly in some advanced dictionaries.[19]

Iẓāfat

Iẓāfat is a syntactical construction of two nouns, where the first component is a determined noun, and the second is a determiner. This construction was borrowed from Persian. A short vowel "i" is used to connect these two words, and when pronouncing the newly formed word the short vowel is connected to the first word. If the first word ends in a consonant or an ʿain (ع), it may be written as zer ( ِ ) at the end of the first word, but usually is not written at all. If the first word ends in choṭī he (ہ) or ye (ی or ے) then hamzā (ء) is used above the last letter (ۂ or ئ or ۓ). If the first word ends in a long vowel (ا or و), then a different variation of baṛī ye (ے) with hamzā on top (ئے, obtained by adding ے to ئ) is added at the end of the first word.^[20]

Forms Example Transliteration Meaning

ــِ شیرِ پنجاب sher-e-Panjāb the lion of Punjab

ۂ ملکۂ دنیا malikā-e-dunyā the queen of the world

ئ ولئ کامل walī-e-kāmil perfect saint

ۓ مۓ عشق mai-e-ishq the wine of love

ئے روئے زمین rū-'e-zamīn the surface of the Earth

صدائے بلند sadā-'e-buland a high voice

Computers and the Urdu alphabet

In the early days of computers, Urdu was not properly represented on any
National Language Authority is called Urdu Zabta Takhti (اردو ضابطہ تختی) (UZT)^[22]
which represents Urdu in its most complete form including some of its specialized diacritics, though UZT is not designed to coexist with the Latin alphabet.

Encoding Urdu in Unicode

Confusable glyphs in Urdu and Arabic script
Characters
in Urdu Characters
in Arabic

ہ (U+06C1)
ھ (U+06BE) ه (U+0647)

ی (U+06CC) ى (U+0649)
ي (U+064A)

ک (U+06A9) ك (U+0643)

Like other writing systems derived from the Arabic script, Urdu uses the 0600–06FF Unicode range.
hāʾ
(U+0647; phonetic value /h/). In Urdu, the /h/ phoneme is represented by the character U+06C1, called gol he (round he), or chhoti he (small he).
In 2003, the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP)[26]—a research organisation affiliated with Pakistan's National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences—produced a proposal for mapping from the 1-byte UZT encoding of Urdu characters to the Unicode standard.^[27] This proposal suggests a preferred Unicode glyph for each character in the Urdu alphabet.

Software

The Daily Jang was the first Urdu newspaper to be typeset digitally in Nastaʻliq by computer. There are efforts underway to develop more sophisticated and user-friendly Urdu support on computers and on the Internet. Nowadays, nearly all Urdu newspapers, magazines, journals and periodicals are composed on computers via various Urdu software programmes, the most widespread of which is InPage Desktop Publishing package. Microsoft has included Urdu language support in all new versions of Windows and both Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 are available in Urdu through Language Interface Pack^[28] support. Most Linux Desktop distributions allow the easy installation of Urdu support and translations as well.^[29] Apple implemented the Urdu language keyboard across Mobile devices in its iOS 8 update in September 2014.^[30]

Romanization standards and systems

Main article: Roman Urdu

There are several romanization standards for writing Urdu with the Latin alphabet, though they are not very popular because most fall short of representing the Urdu language properly. Instead of standard romanization schemes, people on Internet, mobile phones and media often use a non-standard form of romanization which tries to mimic
English orthography. The problem with this kind of romanization is that it can only be read by native speakers, and even for them with great difficulty. Among standardized romanization schemes, the most accurate is ALA-LC romanization, which is also supported by National Language Authority. Other romanization schemes are often rejected because either they are unable to represent sounds in Urdu properly, or they often do not take regard of Urdu orthography, and favor pronunciation over orthography.^[31]

The National Language Authority of Pakistan has developed a number of systems with specific notations to signify non-English sounds, but these can only be properly read by someone already familiar with the loan letters.^[citation needed]
Roman Urdu also holds significance among the Christians of Pakistan and North India. Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places. Pakistani and Indian Christians often used the Roman script for writing Urdu. Thus Roman Urdu was a common way of writing among Pakistani and Indian Christians in these areas up to the 1960s. The Bible Society of India publishes Roman Urdū Bibles that enjoyed sale late into the 1960s (though they are still published today). Church songbooks are also common in Roman Urdu. However, the usage of Roman Urdu is declining with the wider use of Hindi and English in these states.

Glossary of key words from letter names

Translations and other uses of key words from Urdu letter names
Letter name(s) Urdu word Examples of other uses

Isolated
form Urdu
name Roman Urdu Urdu
IPA
Roman Urdu
name English Translation Urdu
IPA
Translation

ح بَڑی حے baṛī ħē بَڑی bəɽi^[15] baṛī /
bari big / elder^[15] بڑی آنت Baṛi ant large intestine

ے بَڑی يـے baṛī yē آنت Ant
intestine

ی چھوٹی یے čhōṭī yē چھوٹی tʃʰoːʈi^[15] choti small / minor / junior^[15]

ہ چھوٹی ہے čhōṭī hē چھوٹی آنت small intestine

گول ہـے gōl hē گول goːl^[15] gōl round / spherical / vague / silly / obese^[32] گول گپے gol gappay panipuri

ھ دوچَشْمی ہے dō-čašmī hē دوچَشْمی do-cashmī two-eyed
^{[citation needed]} دو چشمی دوربین do-cashmi
dorabīn
binoculars

دوربین dorabīn telescope

دو do 2 / two دو ایوانیت do ayvanīt bicameralism

چشم /tʃəʃm/^[15] chashm the eye / hope / expectation^[32] چشم cashm eye

ں نُونِ غُنّہ nūn-e ğunnah غُنّہ ɣʊnnɑ^[15] ğunnah / g͟hunnah nasal sound or twang^[15] example needed
]

آ الِف مَدّه alif maddah مَدّه maddah Arabic: example needed
]

ؤ واوِ مَہْمُوز vāv-e mahmūz مَہْمُوز mæhmuːz^[15] mahmūz defective / improper^[15] example needed
]

ء ا آ ب پ ت ٹ ث ب ج چ خ ح د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ں و ہ ھ ی ے حروف تہجی
^[33] harūf tahajī (alphabet) تہجی tahajī sequence
^{[citation needed]} example needed
]

حُرُوف /hʊruːf/^[15] harūf letters (plural)^[15]
(often referred to as "alphabets" in informal Pakistani English) example needed
]

حَرْف /hərf/^[15] harf "letter of the alphabet" / handwriting / statement / blame / stigma^[15] example needed
]

See also

Nastaʻliq script

Romanization of Urdu

Urdu Braille

Urdu Informatics

Urdu keyboard

Urdu Wikipedia

References

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^ "Controversy over number of letters in Urdu alphabet". DAWN.COM. 15 June 2009.

^ Delacy 2003, pp. XV–XVI.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Urdu romanization" (PDF). The Library of Congress.

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Urdu Alphabet". www.user.uni-hannover.de. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Extended Arabic Letter". unicode.org. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Based on ISO 8859-6". unicode.org. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Urdu: Oxford Living Dictionaries". Urdu: Oxford Living Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2020.

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^ Delacy 2003, pp. 99–100.

^ "IBM 868 code page"

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^ "Arabic" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

^ "A dictionary, Hindustani and English". Dsal.uchicago.edu. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2011.

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^ "Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing". Crulp.org. Retrieved 18 December 2011.

^ Archive index at the Wayback Machine

^ "مائِیکروسافٹ ڈاؤُن لوڈ مَرکَزWindows". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 18 December 2011.

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^ "E-Urdu: How one man's plea for Nastaleeq was heard by Apple". The Express Tribune. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

^ "اردو میں نقل حرفی ۔ ایک ابتدائی تعارف : نبلٰی پیرزادہ". nlpd.gov.pk.

^ ^a ^b "Urdu: Oxford Living Dictionaries (Urdu to English Translation)". Urdu: Oxford Living Dictionaries. Retrieved 15 March 2020.^{[dead link]}

^ "خلا سے زمین پر انگریزی کےحروف تہجی". BBC News اردو (in Urdu). 5 January 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2020.

Sources

Delacy, Richard (2003). Beginner's Urdu Script. McGraw-Hill.

Delacy, Richard (2010). Read and write Urdu script. McGraw-Hill.
ISBN 9780071747462
.

"Urdu romanization" (PDF). The Library of Congress.

Ishida, Richard. "Urdu script notes".

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Urdu

Urdu alphabet

Urdu alphabet with Devanagari equivalents Archived 11 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Hugo's Urdu Alphabet Page Archived 16 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine

calligraphyislamic.com, a resource for Urdu calligraphy and script

Urdu Script Introduction from Columbia University

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language Archived 6 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine

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