Urdu translators working with us are all native speakers and translate solely into their mother tongue. Our translations are produced by qualified translation experts in a wide range of fields, including financial, medical, banking, engineering, web content, software and many more subjects.
Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and standard Urdu is the twentieth most populous language in the world, totalling over 60 million people.
It is the national language of Pakistan (150 million+ speakers) and is used in education and literature, office and court business, the media and in religious institutions. It is the official repository of the cultural and social heritage of the country. It shares official language status with English.
It is one of the 23 official languages of India (about 250 million speakers) including parts of Uttar Pradesh (such as Lucknow), Delhi, Kashmir, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mysore, Patna, Ajmer, and Ahmedabad.
Outside South Asia, it is spoken by emigrant South Asian workers. Other countries where there are clear minority Urdu-speaking concentrations include the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, the United States of America, Afghanistan, South Africa, Oman, Canada, Bahrain, Mauritius, Qatar, Germany, Norway, France, Spain and Sweden.
Urdu is generally written right-to left as an extension of the Persian alphabet. It is also written in the Roman script, a result of the availability and low cost of Roman set-able printing typefaces in contexts such as product labels. It is regaining popularity among users of text-messaging and Internet services and is developing its own style and conventions.
Because of their identical grammar and nearly identical core vocabularies, most linguists do not distinguish between Hindi and Urdu as separate languages. For them, ordinary informal Urdu and Hindi can be seen as variants of the same language (Hindustani). The difference is that Urdu is supplemented by a Perso-Arabic vocabulary and Hindi by a Sanskrit vocabulary. The two standardised registers of Hindustani — Hindi and Urdu — have become so entrenched as separate languages that often nationalists, both Muslim and Hindu, claim that Hindi and Urdu have always been separate languages. However, there are unifying forces. For example, it is said that Indian Bollywood films are made in "Hindi", but the language used in most of them is Urdu. The dialogue is frequently developed in English and later translated to an intentionally neutral Hindustani which can be easily understood by speakers of most North Indian languages, both in India and in Pakistan.
Translation projects undertaken in Urdu include web site content, sales and marketing material, documentation requirements for engineering and manufacturing.
Total Language Solutions are translation specialists in Urdu in DTP, print ready and electronic forms of material, integrating text and diagrams and more besides. Total Language Solutions are translation experts in the relevance of text, drawings, colours and layout presentation and localisation to meet consumer expectations and norms, without causing offence.
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