Reflect on how knowing a language’s history can help you learn the language:
Before starting how the history of Urdu language helps me as learner to learn the language, it is good to start with some information about it at first hand.Urdu is the first official language of Pakistan.Urdu is written right-to left in an extension of the Persian alphabet and it has38 letters with no distinct letter cases. Urdu language in 10th century and started its literature through poetry. Urdu came from a Turki word Ordu (Army)/ Lashkar. The language was known as Hindi before 1837 but the division between Hindu and Muslims came to a point that they ended up having different languages. So the people of Pakistan thought to "Khalis"/"purify" Urdu. In order to do that, they used the writing system of Arabic and Persian. So the history of Urdu language helps me to do some researcher on the base of it when i face problems. For instance, if something did not make really sense in Urdu, i go back and search that in Arabic because the base of Urdu is Arabic language. It might not be the same with everyone, especially when some does not have any background in Arabic but as an individual i see it helpful. :)
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