How many letters are there in the Urdu alphabet? I wish I could answer this question in unambiguous terms. But the controversy over the total and correct number of letters in Urdu alphabet has been ...

We can insert an excerpt of Arabic and Persian text into an Urdu article without any changes in spellings because our alphabet has all the letters of both languages. We can also write most of Hindi ...

he fact that the alphabet of a language could be a contentious issue may be surprising for a large number of Pakistanis, given that we seldom dive deeply into the linguistics of Urdu or other ...