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In school, perhaps so. But looking at something like https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اردو https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اردو, there's scarcely more than a handful
by jfk13 7y ago
In school, perhaps so. But looking at something like https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اردو https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/اردو, there's scarcely more than a handful of short vowel marks (zabar, zer, pesh, or fatha, kasra, damma as an Arabic speaker would call them) anywhere on the page; the vast majority are left unwritten.
- owaislone 7y agoWhile I'm not 100% sure, I think it _might_ be the case of writing Urdu online vs on paper. I'll try to grab an Urdu book or newspaper tomorrow and see how it is written. Thanks for the insight, this was very interesting.
- selimthegrim 7y agoIf you look at say Jang, you will almost never see the diacritics except maybe in headlines