why did urdu become the national language?
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Explanation:
Several languages and dialects spoken throughout the regions of Pakistan produced an imminent need for a uniting language. Urdu was chosen as a symbol of unity for the new state of Pakistan in 1947, because it had already served as a lingua franca among Muslims in north and northwest British India.
Answer:
Several languages and dialects spoken throughout the regions of Pakistan produced an imminent need for a uniting language. Urdu was chosen as a symbol of unity for the new state of Pakistan in 1947, because it had already served as a lingua franca among Muslims in north and northwest British India.
Language family: Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Central Zone > West...
Writing system: Perso-Arabic (Urdu alphabet); Roman Urdu (unofficial); Bengali script ...
Region: Hindi-Urdu belt, Deccan, Sindh (specifically Karachi and Hyderabad) since ...
Ethnicity: Urdu-speaking people (Muslims of the Hindi-Urdu Belt, the Deccani people ...