Urdu

Urdu is my mother tongue.

Urdu is our mother tongue.

Urdu is her mother tongue.

Urdu is his mother tongue.

Urdu and Punjabi are her native languages, but she speaks several others very well, including Tamil, Pashto, and Cantonese.

Do you know anyone who speaks Urdu over here?

Hindi and Urdu are one language.

Hindi and Urdu are the same language.

Do you speak Urdu?

I know an Algerian who learned Hindi and Urdu from Bollywood movies.

‘Urdu was born in the barracks a few hundred years ago, and was spoken by soldiers. It gets its grammar from Hindi, and vocabulary from Persian.’