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Urdu

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The Urdu language is a beautiful literary language of South Asia, written in graceful script and famous for its melodious poetry.

The Urdu language is a major language that developed in South Asia through cultural contact between local languages, Arabic, Persian, and Turkic tongues. Written in the elegant Nastaliq script, it became the vehicle for a vast heritage of Islamic literature, philosophy, and poetry by renowned thinkers like Allama Iqbal and Mirza Ghalib.

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