This textbook will help intermediate students gain advanced levels of proficiency in Urdu. By learning about the mechanics of word-building through contextualising explanations and practical exercises, learners will develop their comprehension skills in reading, writing and speaking. Each module is based on a register from another language and follows the same structure with a self-explanatory introduction illustrated by carefully chosen examples and a range of exercises to improve and test learners' skills. Urdu Vocabulary complements college-level Urdu language and literature courses as well as self-study, making it an ideal resource for students, translators, researchers and scholars.
This textbook will help intermediate students gain advanced levels of proficiency in Urdu. By learning about the mechanics of word-building through contextualising explanations and practical exercises, learners will develop their comprehension skills in reading, writing and speaking.
| Acknowledgments |
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| A Note on Transliteration |
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| Introduction and How to Use this Book |
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1 | (12) |
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1 Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies |
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13 | (42) |
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55 | (102) |
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157 | (46) |
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203 | (54) |
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5 The Prakrit-Sanskrit Element |
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257 | (39) |
| Appendix I Arabic Verbal Noun Charts |
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296 | (11) |
| Appendix II Persian Verbal Noun Charts |
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307 | (9) |
| Appendix III Hindi Verbal Noun Charts |
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316 | (3) |
| Appendix IV Sanskrit Roots |
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319 | (3) |
| Bibliography |
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322 | (3) |
| Index |
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Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu'mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill's online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 - 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.
