ABSTRACT

Urdu greetings vary according to the religion of the speaker, but not according to the time of the day. In some cases, the speaker may choose to greet according to the religion of his/her listener.

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Vocabulary Note: It is a standard convention to transliterate Urdu words in lower case. This convention is used here. Therefore, the first letter of the first word in a sentence is not capitalized. The only exceptions are upper case T, D, N and R, which represent the retroflex sounds, and G, which represents the velar frlcative sound.