Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Urdu – Add value to your Travelling

Scholars have described language as light of mind and expression of soul. It is more than just a source of communication for day to day life but also has significance to highlight the national ideology and collateral vision of speakers. Development in the world would not be possible without the presence of a language. Every successor inherits knowledge and wisdom through language, which serves as predecessor for further development on a subject.
Over 160 million people speak Urdu language. It is the national language of Pakistan, country renowned for beautiful mountains, Romantic Sunsets and diversified cultural activities. Hundred of tourists travel over the year to experience the hospitality and generosity of Pakistani people. If you know Urdu language you would have an opportunity to closely observe the stupendous cultural values. Knowing Urdu language would mix you up with local people which glorify your visit with their extreme hosting traditions.
Urdu language is rich in vocabulary and expression. Its speakers have legacy of historic literature which projects wisdom, insight, knowledge and information for its readers. Creative Urdu Writing is renowned all over the world, number of times Urdu publications have been translated to other languages to extract thought provoking knowledge for others.
Urdu language is soft and expressive. It has capacity to give expression for every situation, sentiment and feeling.
If you travel in search of nature or for knowledge sharing; Pakistan is destination for your cause. Its hospitality and cultural creativity would add value to your travelling. You would meet a new world, welcoming everyone to learn share and rise. Urdu language is a great tool to interact with people and learn through their experiences and findings.

Urdu – Absolute Expression for Everyone

World is full of languages, learning different languages help individuals to gain knowledge and skills. Every nation is renowned for their unique expression and style of accent. Language gives medium to its speakers to express their thoughts and emotions. Every language moves through evolutions with time to gain diversity of words and phrases to facilitate its speaker with diversified needs.  For all those who love to explore different cultures and traditions language is their tool to enjoy and spread their findings.
Urdu is national language of Pakistan, a country which has unique, rich and most diversified culture in the world. Driving few extra miles bring about a complete different tradition preserving national ideology, strength and element of hosting.   
Urdu language has proved its strength and versatility all over the world. Being absolute and supreme in nature its creative fraternities have produced antiques of Urdu literature. Famous poets like Iqbal, Faiz and Ghalib have successfully managed to present their creativity using the rich Urdu vocabulary and catchy sentence building.
Despite the fact that Urdu has been seeing a tough time to maintain its presence and legacy, it has proved to be complete and thoughtful expression for all type of communications. In the subcontinent many times purposely its speakers are forced to abandon language for many political gains. Beauty and versatility of Urdu language has always kept it precious with its speakers. This is the reason Urdu has reached to 4th commonly used language in the world.
Urdu learning can be a good experience for everyone it can help you to read and benefit from the creative and though provoking expressions.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

URDU and HINDI: Two Similar yet Different Languages

Urdu and Hindi are considered different languages which enjoy completely different scriptures and sociolinguistic sense. However, these two languages are not even distinct dialects, but these are different literary styles of one dialect. This is called the “dehalvi” dialect, which encompasses verbal styles of both Hindi and Urdu.
At idiomatic and conversational level, these are identical in nature and a speaker often cannot be identified whether speaking Hindi or Urdu. These languages have very small differences in vocabulary, plus the pronunciation. Grammar of these two languages is indistinguishable and both the languages enjoy Persian and Sanskrit influences to a great level.
The ambiguity in this colloquial language has often been classified “Hindustani”, which is strongly used by media, in Bollywood films to target masses at universal level. The formal and academic versions, on the other hand side, differ a lot because Urdu enjoys the base of Persian and Arabic, while Hindi has the base of Sanskrit. This difference goes up to the level where both of these languages become mutually incomprehensible.
The scripts of both the languages have been following a general convention, of Urdu being written in Persio- Arabic style while Hindi is written in Devanagari style. Often the nationalists of the languages classify both the languages in different pools stating that these languages have nothing in common and they have always been separate languages.
Researchers have always been confronted with an issue of distinguishing between the speakers of the two languages Hindi and Urdu, in India and Pakistan. It has always been problematic to estimate number of speakers for whom Hindi is first language and for whom Urdu is first. Therefore, the estimate number of people is vague and contentious.