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Beginner's Urdu script / Richard Delacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delacy, Richard.
- Series:
- Teach yourself books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urdu language--Alphabet.
- Urdu language.
- Urdu language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
- Genre:
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- [New edition].
- Other Title:
- Teach yourself beginner's Urdu script
- Place of Publication:
- Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC/Contemporary Pub., 2003.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Urdu.
- Summary:
- Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C!
- Readers wanting to learn the basics of reading and writing a new language that employs script will find all they need in the Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series. Each book includes a step-by-step introduction to reading and writing in a new language as well as tips and practice exercises to build learners' skills. Thanks to the experts at Teach Yourself, script will no longer be all "Greek" to language learners--unless of course, it is Greek script! "Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series books feature: "Origins of the language A systematic approach to mastering the script Lots of "hands-on" exercises and activities Practical examples from real-life situations
- Contents:
- Characters of the Urdu alphabet XII
- be
- kaf
- lam
- mim
- Representation of short vowels
- alif
- Modified form of kaf
- tashdid
- pe
- jim
- gaf
- choti he
- Modified form of gaf
- Aspiration
- ye
- Punctuation
- te
- cim
- sin
- nun
- Nasalisation
- vao
- dal
- re
- bari he
- shin
- svad
- khe
- zal
- ze
- zad
- fe
- ghain
- qaf
- Pronunciation
- Positional forms
- Writing practice
- se
- zhe
- to'e
- zo'e
- 'ain
- Pronunciation of 'ain
- hamza
- izafat
- Modified forms of characters
- Shortened alif
- Doubled vowel-markers
- The Arabic definite article al
- Further notes on pronunciation
- Doubling of choti he
- Reading and writing practice
- Numbers
- Decimals and fractions
- Dates
- Days of the week
- Months.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xviii).
- ISBN:
- 007141987X
- OCLC:
- 52770901
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