السلام علیکم!
say it: “us-sah-LAH-moo ah-LAY-kum”
Urdu
in its own words: اردو
- Speakers
- 230 million
- Family
- Indo-European – Indo-Aryan
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
Fun fact
Urdu and Hindi sound almost the same but are written completely differently: one right to left, the other left to right.