The State of Regional Languages — Urdu
<p>Urdu is derived from the Turkish word<em> ‘Ordu’</em> meaning army or a military camp. There are numerous facts and figures scattered all over, but according to my mother who has a Doctorate in the said language quotes, <em>‘although it may trace its roots far in the past, it truly originated in 1857 during the great uprising of the Indian soldiers against the British, when we were still a United India.’</em> The language is a native of the South-Asian belt more likely the Indian sub-continent, having more than 50.7 million <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">speakers in India</a>, about 16 million in Pakistan and some in Afghanistan as well. Urdu is one of the 22 official languages recognized by the Constitution of India. It is the official language of the state of Jammu & Kashmir and the secondary official of Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Telangana.</p>
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