Quotes About Urdu

Iqbal, using Urdu and also Persian, would be the poet of Islam rather than of India.

Urdu is an aristocratic language. It was not the language of the working classes. Those who are left—the artisans—speak Karkhana [factory] Urdu. The Urdu of the poets is dead.

Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

She speaks the most beautiful Urdu.

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

I said that before leaving Pakistan I would make an offering of an Urdu couplet to the Minister, which might come in handy when he next faced the thekedars of Islam. It ran: Mullah, gar asar hai dua mein To Masjid hila kay dikha Gar nahin, to do ghoont pee Aur Masjid ko hilta deykh (Mullah, if there is power in your prayer Let me see you shake the mosque! If not, take a couple of swigs of liquor And see the mosque shake on its own.)

Given a chance, I would love to host a television show as I have good communication skills and am fluent in Hindi, English and Urdu.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from the 1950s until the '80s. It is a very communicative language.

I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.

Bengali is like Urdu. If you cannot get the pronunciation right, you spoil the flavor of it all.

I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.

In Mumbai, Marathi schools are shutting down and Urdu schools are increasing. The parties governing the BMC are giving permission to these schools. If Urdu schools are rising, you know whose numbers are increasing and who is coming to the city.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Beginning with Liaquat, moving forward with Ayub Khan and culminating with Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan's leaders proceeded to delineate a 'noble and eternal' ideology that would give Pakistan 'a tremendous power of cohesion and resistance', insisting that it was on the basis of Islam 'that we fought for and got Pakistan'. Islam, hostility to India, and the Urdu language were identified as the cornerstones of this new national ideology.

There is a translation of a Persian book into English, not from Persian, but from a French translation of an Urdu rendering of a classical Persian abridgment of an Arabic original.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

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