Urdu is the language spoken in Northern India and Pakistan.
Urdu/Hindi and Irish are all Indo-European languages.
Again, you can see a great similarity between the two languages here:
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| Number | Irish | Urdu | Urdu/Arabic
Symbol
|
Hindi (Devanagari) |
| 0 | nialas | sifar (Urdu) / shoonya (Hindi) |
٠ | ० |
| 1 | aon | ek | ١ | १ |
| 2 | dó | do | ٢ | २ |
| 3 | trí | teen | ٣ | ३ |
| 4 | ceathair | chaar | ٤ | ४ |
| 5 | cúig | paanch | ٥ | ५ |
| 6 | sé | che | ٦ | ६ |
| 7 | seacht | saat | ٧ | ७ |
| 8 | ocht | aaTh | ٨ | ८ |
| 9 | naoi | nau | ٩ | ९ |
| 10 | deich | dus | ٪ |
Notes on Indo-European numerals taken from a book by Winfred P. Lehmann called the Theoretical Bases of Indo-European Linguistics, and published in 1993 by Ruthledge.
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