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1. Spoken throughout South Asia, Urdu belongs to the southernmost branch of which large language family?
2. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible varieties of the same language, known as Hindustani. True or false?
3. Derived from a Turkic word meaning "army" or "camp", the name Urdu is related to what English word - frequently used to denote a large group of people in a slightly pejorative sense?
4. What language of a large Western Asian country, a former empire, was a major influence on the development of modern-day Urdu?
5. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, and a powerful symbol of cultural identity. Which is these facts about Urdu speakers is TRUE?
6. Many Urdu speakers reside outside the Indian subcontinent. In which Southern Hemisphere country, noted for having 11 official languages, does it have protected status?
7. Urdu is written in a variation of the Arabic script. However, a transliteration in the Latin alphabet called Roman Urdu is also available. Which of these groups of people would be LEAST likely to use Romanized Urdu?
8. Urdu shares a feature with languages such as French, Spanish, Italian and German (though not with English) that plays a major role in everyday communication. What is it?
9. Bearing in mind the cultural and religious background of most Urdu speakers, which of the following greetings is the Urdu counterpart of "hello"?
10. Many English words are derived from other languages. Which of these commonly used, clothing-related words does NOT come from Urdu, but from another Asian language, spoken much further east?
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