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The name Urdu for language seems to have begun its life from as “Zaban-e-Urdu-emu’alla-e-Shahjahanabad” (the language of the exalted city of Shahjahanabad). It soon became shortened to “Zaban-e-Urdu-e mu’alla”, then to “Zaban-e- Urdu” and then to “Urdu”.
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to briefly review the Urdu or else further specifically Modern Standard Urdu, which is a consistent register of the important language globally. Historically, Urdu is associated with the Muslims of the region of subcontinent before the partition.
In this book this process is explained from a historical linguistics point of view, noting those factors natural and otherwise which have influenced the language to be in the form we find it today. The book also analyzes the etymological components of the basic vocabulary of Urdu language.
Urdu phonology (Becker and Narang 1971), developed a computer font for Urdu, and published a reverse dictionary of Urdu (1980), an early application of the newly emerging computer technology to lexicography.
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When does the word Urdu first occur as the name of a language ? It became common in Lucknow after 1846 and in Delhi after 1857. We must make a sharp distinction between Urdu, used by itself as a proper name, and zah?n i Urdu ; for we cannot be sure that zab?n i Urd? is a name ; it may be a mere description, " the language of the arrny."
The recognition that a word is etymologically derived from Arabic tells us nothing about the context in which it was borrowed into Urdu. Many Arabic words entered Urdu through Persian, but we wouldn’t know that just by reading an Urdu dictionary where a word’s etymology is marked as “Arabic.”
