Urdu phrasebook - Wikitravel
Urdu is written in the Shāhmukhī (شاہ مکھی) script, shared with Afghanistan, Iran and a number of other Pakistani languages. Urdu, as mentioned earlier, is written in a modified Perso-Arabic script called abjad. An abjad does not write short vowels, except at the beginning of a word with alif serving as a place holder. This can make it frustrating for the learner as the words I …
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