Urduization

English

Etymology

From Urdu +‎ -ization

Noun

Urduization (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Pakistan) The process of adopting or integrating elements of the Urdu language into another language or region.
    • 2002, Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Beverly Hartford, Political Independence with Linguistic Servitude: The Politics about Languages in the Developing World‎[1], Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 25:
      Parents were critical of the Urduization policy, which they saw as hypocritical, and preferred sending their children to English medium private schools. They felt that the Urduization would not be able to continue for long.
    • 2018 April 24, Asma Iqbal, Pakistani Englishes: Syntactic Variations‎[2], Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1967:
      He discussed the Urduization and other features of Pakistani English with respect to the novels and divided examples in various semantic categories.
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