Above the door hangs a hand-painted wooden sign with the deli's name scrawled in red Roman letters and flowing Urdu script.

In time, Urdu in Urdu script also became a literary language with an increasing body of literature written in the 18th and 19th century.

Note: In traditional Urdu script these vowels sounds are not represented by any letters of alphabet.

The first line is written in Urdu script.

However, some Ladakhi and Balti speakers write with the Urdu script.

Despite this opposition it is still used by most on the internet and computers due to limitations of most technologies as they do not have the Urdu script.

Meanwhile, in Western Punjab a form of the Urdu script, known as Shahmukhi is still in use.

It supports basic Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu scripts.

Pakistan uses the Shahmukhi script, that is closer to Urdu script.

In 1975 a writing system was developed using Arabic letters; other scholars adopted Urdu script to remedy some deficiencies of the Arabic.