Urdu
The word Urdu is of Turkish origin and means 'army' or camp (the English
word 'horde' has the same roots) - so Urdu is quite simply the language of
the camp. Urdu is graceful and poetic with no over-harsh gutterals to cause
a foreigner to stumble in his/her pronounciation. It is also a language that
lends itself to scholarship and artistic endeavour and that rests on a vast
and elegant body of literature and poetry going back some 700 years. Most
notably it is a polite and gentle language which in its form of speech,
recognises the basic equality of all humanity, bestowing equal respect on the
servant and the master, the courtier and the king.
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Urdu resources on the Web