Editing Urdu (section)

=== Elsewhere ===
[[File:UAE_signboard.jpg|right|thumb|A trilingual [[signboard]] in [[Arabic]], English and Urdu in the [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]].  The Urdu sentence is not a direct translation of the English ("Your beautiful city invites you to preserve it") or Arabic (the same). It says, "apné shahar kī Khūbsūrtīi ko barqarār rakhié, or "Please preserve the beauty of your city."]]

In [[Nepal]], Urdu is a registered regional dialect<ref name="MOE Nepal-1994">{{cite web|title=National Languages Policy Recommendation Commission|url=https://www.moe.gov.np/assets/uploads/files/Language_Policy_English1.pdf|page=Appendix one|publisher=MOE Nepal|year=1994|access-date=14 March 2021|archive-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032133/https://www.moe.gov.np/assets/uploads/files/Language_Policy_English1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and in [[South Africa]], it is a protected language in the constitution. It is also spoken as a minority language in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Bangladesh]], with no official status.

Outside South Asia, it is spoken by large numbers of migrant South Asian workers in the major urban centres of the [[Persian Gulf]] countries. Urdu is also spoken by large numbers of immigrants and their children in the major urban centres of the [[Urdu in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most Pakistanis and Urdu speakers live in this Australian state |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/most-pakistanis-and-urdu-speakers-live-in-this-australian-state |website=SBS Your Language |publisher=sbs.com.au |language=en}}</ref> Along with [[Arabic language|Arabic]], Urdu is among the immigrant languages with the most speakers in [[Catalonia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-catalunya-arabe-urdu-aparecen-lenguas-habituales-catalunya-creando-peligro-guetos-20090629150020.html|title=Árabe y urdu aparecen entre las lenguas habituales de Catalunya, creando peligro de guetos|date=29 June 2009|publisher=Europapress.es|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118070643/http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-catalunya-arabe-urdu-aparecen-lenguas-habituales-catalunya-creando-peligro-guetos-20090629150020.html|archive-date=18 January 2012|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref>