What is Persian and Urdu?
The '''[[Persian language]]''' influenced the formation of many modern languages of the [[Greater Middle East]], [[Central Asia]], and [[South Asia]]n regions, including '''[[Urdu]]'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_family.asp?subid=90019|title=Language Family Trees: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian|publisher=ethnologue.com|accessdate=2011-04-05}}</ref> Following the Turko-Persian Mahmud of Ghazni's Ghaznavid conquest of [[South Asia]], an influenced language of [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] and local dialects began to form, one that would eventually be known as [[Urdu]]. This language was called ''Zaban-e-Ordu'' ('language of the army'), the court language, and was later shortened to just [[Urdu]]. In the indigenous literature and spoken name, it was/is called ''Lashkari'' or ''Lashkari Zaban'' in the long form.<ref>Khan, S., Anwar, W., Bajwa, U., & Wang, X. (2015). Template Based Affix Stemmer for a Morphologically Rich Language. International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), 12(2).</ref> It grew from the interaction of [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Turkish Languages|Turkish]] speaking [[Muslim]] soldiers and the native peoples.<ref name=h>{{cite book|author=Kachru, Yamuna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ooH5VfLTQEQC&dq=urdu+heavy+persian&pg=PA2|title=Hindi|page=2|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|date=2006|isbn = 9789027238122}}</ref> Under Persian influence from the state, the Persian script and [[Nasta'liq]] form of cursive writing was adopted, with additional figures added to accommodate the [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indic]] phonetic system. The national anthem of Pakistan is highly Persianized. Urdu is a morpho-syntax/grammatically a [[Persian-Turkish]] written in the [[Persia-Arabic script]], and contains literary conventions and specialised vocabulary largely from Persian.<ref name=h /> Some grammatical elements peculiar to Persian, such as the enclitic ''ezāfe'', and the use of the