Wiktionary:Urdu transliteration

These are the rules concerning transliteration in Urdu entries. The tables below show the conversion of text in the Urdu language alphabet for alphabet.

• Needs to be updated.

Consonants

No.	Letter	Name of letter	Transcription	IPA
1	ا‎, آ‎	ʾalif	ā, ', –	/aː, ʔ/, ∅
2	ب‎	be	b	/b/
3	پ‎	pe	p	/p/
4	ت‎	te	t	/t̪/
5	ٹ‎	ṭe	ṭ	/ʈ/
6	ث‎	se	s	/s/
7	ج‎	jīm	j	/d͡ʒ/
8	چ‎	ce	c	/t͡ʃ/
9	ح‎	baṛī he	h	/h, ɦ/
10	خ‎	xe	x	/x/
11	د‎	dāl	d	/d̪/
12	ڈ‎	ḍāl	ḍ	/ɖ/
13	ذ‎	zāl	z	/z/
14	ر‎	re	r	/r/
15	ڑ‎	ṛe	ṛ	/ɽ/
16	ز‎	zz	z	/z/
17	ژ‎	že	ž	/ʒ/
18	س‎	sīn	s	/s/
19	ش‎	śīn	ś	/ʃ/
20	ص‎	su'ād	s	/s/
21	ض‎	zu'ād	z	/z/
22	ط‎	to'e	t	/t/
23	ظ‎	zo'e	z	/z/
24	ع‎	ʿain	ā, o, e, ',	/aː, oː, eː, ʔ, ʕ/, Ø
25	غ‎	ġain	ġ	/ɣ/
26	ف‎	fe	f	/f/
27	ق‎	qāf	q	/q/
28	ک‎	kāf	k	/k/
29	گ‎	gāf	g	/ɡ/
30	ل‎	lām	l	/l/
31	م‎	mīm	m	/m/
32	ن‎	nūn	n	/n, ɲ, ɳ, ŋ/
33	ں‎	nūn ġunna	◌̃	/◌̃/
34	و‎	va'o	v, u, o, au, ū	/ʋ, ʊ, oː, ɔː, uː/
35	ـہ‎, ه‎	chōṭī hē	h	/h, ɦ/
36	ھ‎	do caśmī he		/ʰ/ or /ʱ/
37	ء‎	hamzā	', –	/ʔ/, Ø
38	ی‎	choṭī ye	y, ī	/j, iː/
39	ے‎	baṛī ye	ai, e	/ɛː, eː/

Vowels

Romanization	Pronunciation	Final	Medial	Initial
a	/ə/
ā	/aː/
i	/ɪ/
ī	/iː/
u	/ʊ/
ū	/uː/
e	/eː/
ai	/ɛː/
o	/oː/
au	/ɔː/

Short vowels

Vowel	Name	Transcription	IPA
بَ	zabar	a	/ə/
بِ	zer	i	/ɪ/
بُ	peś	u	/ʊ/

External links

• The Urdu Latin alphabet by Adnaan Mahmood
• Haruf-e-Tana by Punya Pranava Pasumarty
  • Appendix:Urdu Swadesh list in Haruf-e-Tana