The competition is over and Urdu has won!!! According to "Renowned Urdu scholar" Dr Farman Fatehpuri, "the status of a language should be decided in view of its influence and that Urdu was the most influential language in the world [...] Urdu has the distinction of having the phonetics and the letters that conform to it. Other languages are mostly devoid of it.”
Well, there you have it.
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I feel like I know less now than before I read this. If you ask me, that's the hallmark of a good blog post.
It's the "it" factor, and Urdu has it.
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