Which language is the most influential in the world? The obvious answer would be English, although Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish could also lay claim to that honour. However, in an article in Pakistani paper The International News, Dr Farman Fatehpuri believes that the title should belong to Urdu, due to its widespread presence in many countries around the world. Dr Fatehpuri was speaking at the Arts auditorium of the University of Karachi in an event organised by the Urdu Dictionary Board (UDB), which has just completed the 22nd volume of the Urdu dictionary.
The Chairman of the Pakistani Urdu Authority (Muqtadra), Iftikhar Arif, was slightly more modest about Urdu's place in the world, claiming that the language had a prominent role in Pakistan, but needed to take words from other regional languages in order to increase its range of expression. Talking about the origin of Urdu, Prof Malahat Kaleem Sherwani claimed that the language was formed in the camps and spoken by the commoners before the elite of society adopted it.
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