“The Urdu language might just fizzle out in the next 50 years if we don’t take solid steps to promote the language via technology and the internet,” Dr Atash Durrani, a linguist, said at the inaugural ...

We can insert an excerpt of Arabic and Persian text into an Urdu article without any changes in spellings because our alphabet has all the letters of both languages. We can also write most of Hindi ...

he fact that the alphabet of a language could be a contentious issue may be surprising for a large number of Pakistanis, given that we seldom dive deeply into the linguistics of Urdu or other ...

George Bernard Shaw, a witty fellow as he was, had offered a large sum of money to anybody who would rationalise English spelling rules. Shaw quipped that according to English spelling rules the word ...

Even though social media has acted as a boon for Urdu with growing attraction of youth towards the language through the medium, speakers at the International Urdu Conference at Lucknow University (LU) ...

Padma Bhushan Gulzar is known for his poetry, lyrics and writing. But there is another facet to him ufffd of being a connoisseur of Indian languages. While the 79-year-old's inclination towards Urdu ...