Urdu Informatics relates to the research and contributions in bringing the utilities and usage of Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 to the modern information and communication technologies in education

ICT (education)

Information and communication technologies in education deal with the use of information and communication technologies within educational technology.-Purpose:...

 and business

Business

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. National Language Authority

National Language Authority

The National Language Authority is an autonomous regulatory institution established in 1979 to support the advancement and promotion of Urdu which is the national language of Pakistan. Initially it was aimed at creating a synergy between national and provincial governments and institutions for...

 in Pakistan has been at the forefront in introducing Urdu Informatics as a tool for the standardisation of Urdu language. Major steps in this respect include the development of Urdu keyboard

Urdu keyboard

The Urdu keyboardاردو is any keyboard layout for an Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution. With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanised compositions have...

 and launching of software to automate translations between Urdu and English language

English language

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Institutional support

There is a dedicated national Centre of Excellence for Urdu Informatics that operates under the auspices of National Language Authority that has been carrying out research on the stardardisation of Urdu alphabet

Urdu alphabet

The Urdu alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Urdu language. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic alphabet...

s for electronic media.

Other institutional contributions also relate to the use of Urdu for internet

Internet

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 applications, input controls, dynamic association of keyboard buttons to Urdu alphabets and use of proper character coding schemes.

See also

• Urdu literature
  Urdu literature
  Urdu literature has a long and colorful history that is inextricably tied to the development of that very language, Urdu, in which it is written...
  
  
• Urdu keyboard
  Urdu keyboard
  The Urdu keyboardاردو is any keyboard layout for an Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution. With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanised compositions have...
  
  
• Nasta'liq script
  Nasta'liq script
  ' is one of the main script styles used in writing the Perso-Arabic script, and traditionally the predominant style in Persian calligraphy. It was developed in Iran in the 8th and 9th centuries...
  
  
• Perso-Arabic script
  Perso-Arabic script
  The Persian or Perso-Arabic alphabet is a writing system based on the Arabic script. Originally used exclusively for the Arabic language, the Arabic alphabet was adapted to the Persian language, adding four letters: , , , and . Many languages which use the Perso-Arabic script add other letters...
  
  
• Urdu Wikipedia
  Urdu Wikipedia
  Urdu Wikipedia , started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of November 2009, it had more than 11,500 articles.- History :...
  
  

External links

• Urdu Wikipedia
• Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics
• Urdu Software