Language Info

Urdu written in Arabic script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Urdu uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Urdu is 258,846,282 people across 3 countries.

Pakistan

194,678,750 people
95.00% literate in Urdu

India

64,097,000 people
5.00% literate in Urdu

Mauritius

70,532 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters