Extraction and Analysis of Urduized English Words From BBC Urdu Newspaper, Pakistan

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to extract out the Urduized English words from BBC Urdu
Newspaper, Pakistan, and to trace back various reasons which are responsible for code
mixing and borrowing in Urdu language which has been used in BBC Urdu Newspaper,
Pakistan. English as a language became the language of globe as a Lingua Franca.
Most of the people came from various countries communicate in English language. As a
result it has affected each other’s languages and it became part of the languages
consciously and unconsciously. Such a living example from these languages is Urdu
language which had gotten and even still it is getting words from English Language.
Some of the reasons of Urduization of English words in Urdu language are the outcome
of scientific inventions, modernization, globalism, colonialism, prestige, status and
sometime a source language concept is lacking in the target language. In this paper,
which is both quantitative and qualitative in its nature, Urduized English words extracted
from BBC Urdu Newspaper, 4th march and 26th May, 2016.Then the words are
categorized into nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Each word is describe from
various perspectives such as etymological, historical, political, and cultural etc. Total
number of words are eight hundred seventy five and out these eight hundred seventy five 
words, sixty words are used as Urduized English words. The percentage of Urduized
English words are seven percent. For the study, the BBC Urdu Newspaper has been
chosen as it represents the language in use. It was selected for the purpose due to its most
accessible nature and can be read online in Pakistan. This paper elucidates that there
are large number of English words in Urdu language which are part of English
Language.