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Is Urdu a romance language? Or related closely to English ?

• lgessler 8y ago
  It's a distant relative: Urdu is Indo-Aryan, which is the language family Sanskrit belonged to, and Indo-Aryan is in the Indo-European language family, to which English and Romance languages also belong. GP's point is still a good one though: while Urdu and English have diverged quite a bit despite being of the same stock, they probably still share a lot more typologically than, say, English and Mandarin or Warlpiri.
• rainraingoaway 8y ago
  Urdu is not even remotely close to being a romance language. Urdu is basically a dialect of hindi, with it's own alphabet derived from Arabic, and loan words from Persian and Arabic.
• yesenadam 8y ago
  Well, they're both Indo-European - evolved from the same language.