Abstract
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales compiled in Arabic in Islamic golden age. Ratan Nath Sarshar was an Urdu novelist, from British India who did the Urdu translation of One Thousand and One Nights from English version. This Urdu translation known as Alif Laila was influenced by Muslim civilization and culture of the subcontinent. Sarshar has used variety of linguistic words taken from Arabic, Farsi and Hindi. Linguistic analysis is the scientific analysis of a language. This analysis of Alif Laila is at Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics level which examines the word and sentence taken from other language and introduced them in Urdu translation. At Pragmatics level, social use of language has been observed.
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