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| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6247 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 14 31 October 2008 at 5:53pm | IP Logged |
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Anyone know where I can find a chart of Urdu Alphabet with Hindi equivalents? Urdu though written in arabic type script is much closer in speech to Hindi, so I think it would be easier to learn the script with Hindi equivalent at ready.
For speakers of Arabic - how different is the Urdu script than proper "Arabic"? Edited by Emerald on 31 October 2008 at 5:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6032 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 2 of 14 31 October 2008 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Dijan/UR-Devanagari
This might be interesting for you. Urdu usually is written in Nastaliq. That's more like a calligraphic form of the Arabic script with some extra Persian letters and I personally find it pretty hard to read - compared to 'usual' Arabic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nastaliq 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6247 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 14 01 November 2008 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks. This is great. (Now I just have to somehow manage to learn it. )
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| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6247 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 14 01 November 2008 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
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After looking at few other sites, I am now even more confused than before.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Dijan/UR-Devanagari The link posted above with Hindi-Urdu script seems to have quite different Urdu alphabets from all the other Urdu alphabets I have found on different sites. http://www.masteranylanguage.com/cgi/f/rView.pl?pc=MALUrdu&t c=Alphabet&vm=fc&la=&sw=1 http://www.urduwriters.org/PRONOUNCIATION.htm Which one is standard Urdu alphabet? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6032 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 5 of 14 01 November 2008 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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hm, don't you worry - it is the same script.
I just noticed that my first link only had a incomplete list (eg 'a' is missing). But I found a better overview for you by now: http://... I got some problems with the URL here (because of the Devanagari in it). Just look up the Wikipedia article about 'Urdu' and change the language to Hindi. It gives a good tabel comparing Devanagari and Nastaliq incl. Latin script. By the way, if you only want to learn the Arabic/Urdu script you can do so with every other site teaching Arabic or Persian. It's the same script! But keep in mind that the letters can look differently depending on their position ie. a letter at the word begining may look somewhat different from a word in the middle or at the end of the word. ps: another great thing to play with is this Hindi2Urdu transliterator http://www.crulp.org/software/langproc/h2utransliterator.htm l You can type in anything in Devanagari and it will transform it to more or less correct Urdu. Plus, if you like the more calligrafic style 'Nastaliq' instead of the 'usual' Arabic style, you can download the font called 'Nafees Nastaleeq' (http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesNast aleeq.html) and use it with eg MS Word Edited by rabyte on 01 November 2008 at 8:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6032 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 6 of 14 02 November 2008 at 4:11am | IP Logged |
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There we go. I got an even better one. It also gives you all the letters in front, middle and last position.
http://freenet-homepage.de/prilop/urdu-alphabet.html Edited by rabyte on 02 November 2008 at 4:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6247 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 14 02 November 2008 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
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Rabyte, thanks for the links.
This is the first time I am attempting to learn a script which is completely alien to me, so it is bit panicky. Learning languages where you recognize a script - even if you don't understand anything - has its comfort. Yes, mainly I just want to learn the script because I am fluent in Hindi and also familiar with spoken Urdu, so once I can actually read it, I am sure I can improve it by reading and such. And learning Urdu script would be a stepping stone for future standard Arabic studies. *** Test of the Transliteration Program Can anyone read this? نمستے آپ کیسے ہو؟ Edited by Emerald on 02 November 2008 at 5:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6082 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 8 of 14 02 November 2008 at 7:43am | IP Logged |
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How similar is Spoken Hindi and Urdu?
Are they similar to accents or dialects? or are they just very mutually intelligible? Thanks TEL 1 person has voted this message useful |
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