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General info	Punjab	Islamabad	Getting there and away	Background
Geography	Sind	Karachi	Visas	Peoples
History	NWFP	Lahore	General	Languages
Archeology	Baluchistan	Peshawar	Health	Health
Cuisine	Tribal Areas	Quetta	When to go	Altitude
Language	Mountains + Valleys	Faisalabad	Weather	.
Museams	National Parks	Hyderabad	.	.
.	.	Multan	.	.

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Unsurprisingly, there is an unparalleled mix of languages spoken in pakistan. You can go from village to village over a few miles and hear languages that sound Arabic, Russian, Greek, or Indian. Urdu is fairly universal and a generous minority know a few words of English. Urdu is an Indo-European language similar to Hindi in most respects except for the script and a few words that are Persian / Arabic based. Like Spanish and French, most nouns have a sex that determines not only their own ending, but the endings of the verbs to which they correspond. Verbs in Urdu are almost always at the end of a sentence.

Hello	A-salam-wa'-a-lae-kum
Response	Wa-lae-kum-salam
Goodbye	A-salam-wa-a-lae-kum or Khuda-hafis
Thank you	Shuk-ria / Metabhani
My name is...	Mera nam ………….. hai
What is your name?	Apka nam kyia hai?
What is this?	Ye kyia hai?
How much is it?	Ye kitney-ka hai? ( t : soft )
What time is it?	Kyia baja hai? or Kyia wakht hai?
One o'clock	Yek baja hai
Today	Aaj
Tomorrow/yesterday	Kall (depending on context - be careful!)
English	Ungraise
Do you know…	Kyia aap jantey hai? ( t : soft )
Water	Paani
Food	Khana
Jeep	Jeep
Mosque	Masjid ( d : soft )
Mountain	Pahaar ( r : hard )
River	Dar-ya ( d : soft )
Currency Rupee	Rupia ( singular ) Rup-ye ( plural )
1	Aik ( sound : ache )
2	tho ( sound : though )
3	teen ( t : soft )
4	char
5	paanch
6	cheih
7	saat ( t : soft )
8	aath
9	nao ( sound : now )
10	dus ( sound : thus )
20	bees
25	pa-cheese
50	pa-chaas
100	sao
1000	hazaar