Locale Ur Pk

Reference data for the Urdu (Pakistan) locale — endonym اردو (پاکستان), written in the Arabic script, right-to-left (RTL).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: ur-PK
• ISO 639-1: ur
• ISO 639-3: urd
• Script: Arab (Arabic)
• Region: PK (Pakistan)
• Text direction: rtl — right-to-left (RTL)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 15,000,000
• L2 (additional): 175,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 190,000,000

Set dir="rtl" for this locale (per Locale's text-direction guidance) rather than assuming left-to-right layout.

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Ur 001 (Urdu), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — i = 1 and v = 0 (e.g. 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Ur 001 with the conventions of Pakistan.

• Context: Urdu is the national language alongside English; regional languages (Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi) are widely spoken. Content for Pakistan is often bilingual with English.
• Formats: Pakistani rupee (Rs or روپے); dates DD/MM/YYYY; Islamic (Hijri) dates for religious events; check CLDR ur-PK for number grouping.
• Tone: polite and respectful, with religious phrases (السلام علیکم, ان شاء اللہ) natural in conversation but not required in commercial copy.
• Names: use correct honorifics (محترم، جناب) in correspondence.

Common pitfalls

• Using Indian (Hindi) vocabulary or script.
• Using culturally insensitive imagery or terms.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Ur 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number grouping, calendars, and currency (https://cldr.unicode.org)