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Urduization

Urduization noun: the process of adopting or integrating elements of the Urdu language into another language or region.

Noun

Urduization (uncountable)

  1. (India, Pakistan) The process of adopting or integrating elements of the Urdu language into another language or region.
    • Parents were critical of the Urduization policy, which they saw as hypocritical, and preferred sending their children to English medium private schools. They felt that the Urduization would not be able to continue for long.2002, Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Beverly Hartford, Political Independence with Linguistic Servitude: The Politics about Languages in the Developing World, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 25
    • He discussed the Urduization and other features of Pakistani English with respect to the novels and divided examples in various semantic categories.2018 April 24, Asma Iqbal, Pakistani Englishes: Syntactic Variations, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1967

Origin of Urduization

From Urdu + -ization

Questions about Urduization

What does Urduization mean?
Urduization means the process of adopting or integrating elements of the Urdu language into another language or region.
What part of speech is Urduization?
Urduization is a noun.

Words near Urduization in the dictionary

  1. urdoxa
  2. Urds
  3. Urdu
  4. Urdufication
  5. Urdufications
  6. Urduization
  7. Urduja
  8. Urduphone
  9. Urduwood
  10. urdy
  11. urdé

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