Urdu is national language of Pakistan which has long history behind it. The language went by several names over the year: Hindvi, “language of India”; Hindustani, “of Hindustan”; Dehalvi, “of Delhi”; and Zuban-e-Urdu, “the language of the army camp”, or conceivably “of the market”, from which came the current name of Urdu. Sometimes Urdu contrasted with Hind, but the main differences between two languages are Standard Urdu is written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script and relies heavily on Persian and Arabic as a source for technical and literary language, while Standard Hindi is written in Devanagri and draws on Sanskrit.
Hindi is national language of India and Urdu is national language of Pakistan, but Urdu is also spoken in India and many other countries. There are 60 to 70 million self-identified native speakers of Urdu: 12 million in Pakistan in 2008, or 14% of the population; 52 million in India per the 2001 census, 6% of the population and thousands of people in United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and Bangladesh, where it is called Behari.
Urdu is spoken by different native speakers of Pakistan because, it is necessary for every Pakistani citizen to learn Urdu. People of different provinces of Pakistan can easily communicate via Urdu if they know it. So every citizen of Pakistan should try to learn Urdu and others also due to its historical recognition.
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