Twitter and Urdu

Abstract

The modern social media is generating terabytes of data in AVT (audio, video and text) format, which mainly comprises of opinions, relations or expressions. Language has always been a way of communication and interaction primarily used in the form of words or signs. Humans have used verbal and physical expression to convey their feelings to facilitate communication. ‘Urdu’ is the national language of Pakistan and has evolved from several languages; such as Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit and Prakrit dating back to the 6th to 13th Century. This study will use the Twitter handle for social media applications sample data to analyze and derive the Urdu language and see the status of Urdu language communication using Twitter. The biggest challenge of this study is that Urdu communication occurs in the form of traditional Urdu and roman Urdu, which makes identification of tweet corpse difficult.