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India has stolen a march on several countries by breaking the language barrier on the Internet.

Seven Indian languages — Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu — have earned the distinction of becoming the only languages other than English, Russian and Arabic to support an entire web address written exclusively in them.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that governs website addresses, has allocated seven domain names in each of these languages that can be used for local websites.

This makes India the only country to have eight domain extensions (besides ‘.in’ that already exists). India will also be the first to have a domain extension in Urdu, ahead of Pakistan, whose official language is Urdu.

N Ravi Shankar, joint secretary at the Department of Information Technology, said the government had been trying to get the allotments for six months. ICANN rarely allots more than one domain extension to a country, Shankar said.

The government, he said, has applied for similar allotments in other regional languages such as Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada. “We are likely to get them in the coming months.”

An internet user who is not an English-literate can now type the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), the global address of documents or resources on the World Wide Web, in any of the regional languages. For example, the Hindi edition of Yahoo can have ØæãêU.ÖæÚUÌ as its URL.

The domain names will be sold by the National Internet Exchange of India — the agency which has been allocating the domain ‘.in’. “It will be sold on first-come-first-serve basis,” Shankar said.

Experts say companies will try to race to book their names under all seven languages to prevent the misuse of their names and trademarks.
 
No kannada,marathi,malayam at the first group???
Why the hell Urdu??
And which state has urdu as official language..???
Scuk this news
 
No Kannada???
Language of the IT capital of India??
Too bad...very bad
Why the hell Urdu??
And which state has urdu as official language..???
Scuk this judegement

The government, he said, has applied for similar allotments in other regional languages such as Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada. “We are likely to get them in the coming months.”


Be patient.. dude.....
 
No kannada,marathi,malayam at the first group???
Why the hell Urdu??
And which state has urdu as official language..???
Scuk this news


states - official language
U.P. - hindi, urdu
Delhi - hindi, urdu, english, punjabi.
J&K - kasmiri, urdu
uttranchal - hindi, kumauian, urdu
 
No.
State
Official Language
Other official languages
1.
Andhra Pradesh
Telugu[56]
Urdu[57]

2.
Arunachal Pradesh
Assamese, English[58]
None[59]
3.
Assam
Assamese[60]
Bengali,[61] Bodo[60]
4.
Bihar
Maithili, Hindi[62]
Urdu[63]

5.
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarhi, Hindi[64]
None[64]
6.
Goa
Konkani[65]
7.
Gujarat
Gujarati,[66] Hindi[66]
8.
Haryana
Hindi[67]
Punjabi[67][68]
9.
Himachal Pradesh
Hindi[69][70]
None[70]
10.
Jammu and Kashmir
Urdu[71]
None[72]

11.
Jharkhand
Hindi, Santali[73]
None[73]
12.
Karnataka
Kannada[74][75]
None[76]
13.
Kerala
Malayalam,[77] English[77]
14.
Madhya Pradesh
Hindi[78]
15.
Maharashtra
Marathi[79][80]
16.
Manipur
Meiteilon (Manipuri)[81]
None[82]
17.
Meghalaya
English[83]
Khasi, Garo[84]
18.
Mizoram
Mizo[85]
None[85]
19.
Nagaland
English[86]
None[86]
20.
Orissa
Oriya,[87]
None[87]
21.
Punjab
Punjabi[88]
None[88]
22.
Rajasthan
Hindi[89]
Rajasthani[89]
23.
Sikkim
Nepali[90][91]
None[92]
24.
Tamil Nadu
Tamil[93]
None
25.
Tripura
Bengali, Tripuri, English[94]
None[94]
26
Uttarakhand
English, Hindi[95]
Urdu,[95] Sanskrit[96]

27.
Uttar Pradesh
Hindi[97]
Urdu[97]

28.
West Bengal
Bengali, English[98]
Nepali[98]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status_in_India
 
No kannada,marathi,malayam at the first group???
Why the hell Urdu??
And which state has urdu as official language..???
Scuk this news


I am surprise are u Indian ???...........U don't know about Which state has Urdu Language..??
Urdu is spoken in Haiderabad...If you know this is part of India.
 
I am surprise are u Indian ???...........U don't know about Which state has Urdu Language..??
Urdu is spoken in Haiderabad...If you know this is part of India.

It is also spoken here in Uttar Pradesh especially in Lucknow.Lucknow being a city with large number of muslims. There is only little difference between Urdu and Hindi. Even i understand most of Urdu though i dont know specific terms. Thats why most dont know where urdu is spoken particularly.
 
No kannada,marathi,malayam at the first group???
Why the hell Urdu??
And which state has urdu as official language..???
Scuk this news

Why not? There are 60 million native Urdu speakers in India and about 5 states/ union territories have Urdu as co-official language. The places were Urdu was born - Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad are all in India.
 

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