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...four-page questionnaire that has been issued to President Kennedy's Peace Corps members includes a question about Urdu, the third-largest spoken language in the world...
...Urdu, which is a Turkish word for lashkar (army), developed under the influence of the Mogul kings some 400 years ago as a sort of lingua franca, originating in the northern parts of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Later during the centuries, it spread very rapidly throughout the subcontinent and became the principal language of the people. For the first time in its history, Urdu has been declared an official language (in Pakistan, pop. 95 million)-the other official language being Bengali. The Urdu script is Arabic, written from right to left...
Some of the many words Urdu has given to the English language are: khaki, pundits, kismet, pyjamas...
...know Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Mandarin, Arabic? If so, could you merely understand a foreigner speaking the language, or read a newspaper, give a short talk about the U.S., write a letter? Can you drive a tractor, run a bulldozer, handle surveyor's tools, operate a power boat, use radio equipment? Are you on any special diets? Do you suffer from allergies? How well do you really know the country in which you would like to serve...