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This article analyzes the influence of Persian and Arabic on the basic vocabulary of the Urdu language through a corpus-based quantitative study. The researcher analyzes 1,000 basic Urdu words to determine the exact percentage of words derived from Persian and Arabic. Urdu originated from Sanskrit but was influenced by Persian and Arabic over time due to cultural and religious factors under Muslim rule in India. The split of the script, with Urdu adopting the Persian-Arabic Nastaliq script and Hindi retaini
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- رضا محمد رضا
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- EN