Abstract
This article is one of a series of articles in regards to the density of the etymological elements which compose Urdu language. In this particular article the exact density of Persian and Arabic elements will be obtained. Urdu is an Indo-European language which derived from Sanskrit into the Prakrit languages and at a later stage was influenced by Persian and Arabic languages, due to both, cultural and religious’ influences. Hindi and Urdu were, in fact, the same language which separated due to the split of the script (digraphia). The Muslims started using a Persian script called Nastaliq, while the Hindus kept on using the Devanagari script. After the split of the language Urdu received numerous loans and grammar structures from Persian and Arabic. The research is noteworthy since it is almost certainly the first corpus-based survey of the use of Persian and Arabic derived terms in Urdu language. The research is conducted utilizing one thousand words of the basic vocabulary of Urdu as the corpus and analyzing them from an etymological point of view. It is conducted through a quantitative, descriptive and analytical methodology, which will reveal the precise percentage of Persian and Arabic vocabulary present in Urdu language.