URDU alphabet has 54 letters, including 15 letters denoting aspirated sounds. The statement is often considered contentious as the inclusion of 15 letters for aspirated sounds plus ‘hamza’ and ‘alif ...

Aamer Hussein is a novelist and short story writer. His first stories in Urdu appeared in a recent edition of Dunyazad. A. writes about how, though his fiction is in French, he thinks in Moroccan ...

Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues’O 1795-1995 Subscribe for ads-free reading Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young ...