Tiếng Urdu
/ˈʊəduː//ˈʊrduː/Word Originfrom Persian (zabān-i-)urdū ‘(language of the) camp’ (because it developed as a lingua franca after the Muslim invasions between the occupying armies and the local people of the region around Delhi), urdū being from Turkic (a large group of Western and Central Asian languages) ordu ‘(royal) camp’.