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Urdu is a south-east Asian language written in Arabic script. It is an official language of Pakistan and is official in India, and widely used among the Muslim population in India. Spoken Urdu is very similar to the Hindi language of India which since 1948 is written in Devanagari script and imports a lot of words from ancient Sanskrit.
Urdu is a language of India and Pakistan very similar to Hindi, except that it uses Muslim rather than Hindu religious vocabulary, and is written in the Arabic alphabet rather than Devanagari. A [http://www.fossfp.org/ullp Linux distribution in Urdu] is in development.


* The Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan is developing a [http://www.fossfp.org/ullp Linux distribution in Urdu].
* Ubuntu Linux has been [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-ur localized into Urdu].
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdu/ Urdu internationalization utilities]. Three utilities: Inpage converter, typing tutor and collating/search will be made available initially.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdufontproject/ Urdu Font Project], a step towards Opensource development of True Type Unicode Standard based Urdu Fonts specially "Nastaleeq", "Nastaleeq" Like and "Naskh" fonts.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduindic/ Urdu Indic Initiative] is the F/LOSS-based localization (l10n) Initiative for Urdu as spoken in the Indian sub-continent. We are working towards a localized GNOME/KDE, Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice.org for ur_IN based on the Unicode Standard and associated technologies.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdu-bb/ Urdu Bulletin Board] is a Mozilla-Firefox Plugin which enables Urdu Typing/Rendering for HTML Pages.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rabtpad/ RabtPad] is a configurable unicode and Java based text editor for arabic based scripts including Urdu and Farsi with virtual keyboard for non-Latin scripts on Latin-based systems, export to pdf, rtf, html and plain text (later xml).
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyurduedit/ PyUrduEdit] is a simple text editor for the Urdu language.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduphpbb/ Urdu phpBB] is an Urdu adaptation of the phpBB forum software complete with langauge translation and an online Urdu editor.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduocrsdk/ Urdu OCR SDK] is in progress. It is an SDK for offline Urdu character recognition.
* Urdu Localization Project
* [http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/en/index.html Klavaro] is a ''Urdu typing tutor,'' which helps you become an accomplished touch typist.
* Ubuntu Linux related Urdu links
** [http://l10n.urduweb.org/dictionary Urdu Word Bank and Dictionary]
** [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-pk Ubuntu Pakistan Team]
** [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-ur Ubuntu Urdu l10n Team]
** [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-urd Ubuntu l10n mailing list]
** [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-pk Ubuntu pk mailing list]
** [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/edgy/+lang/ur Ubuntu Urdu translation project]
** [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/edgy/+lang/sd Ubuntu Sindhi translation project]
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Latest revision as of 16:55, 23 July 2010

Urdu is a south-east Asian language written in Arabic script. It is an official language of Pakistan and is official in India, and widely used among the Muslim population in India. Spoken Urdu is very similar to the Hindi language of India which since 1948 is written in Devanagari script and imports a lot of words from ancient Sanskrit.

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