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Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. [note 1] [13] [14] The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, [note 2] [15] [16] [17] followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu), most of the Muhajir people of Pakistan, Muslims in the Terai of Nepal, and Muslims of Old Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Geographical distribution of Urdu in India and Pakistan. There are over 100 million native speakers of Urdu in India and Pakistan together: there were 50.8 million Urdu speakers in India (4.34% of the total population) as per the 2011 census; [1] and approximately 16 million in Pakistan in 2006. [124]
Urdu is taught as a compulsory subject up to higher secondary school in both English and Urdu medium school systems, which has produced millions of second-language Urdu speakers among people whose native language is one of the other languages of Pakistan – which in turn has led to the absorption of vocabulary from various regional Pakistani ...
There are an estimated 14.7 million Urdu speakers presumably mostly of Muhajir origin in Pakistan. Most of them are settled in the towns and cities of Pakistan mainly those of Urban Sindh, such as Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas and Sukkur. Muhajir pockets are also found in other metropolises of Pakistan such as Islamabad and Lahore.
Persian and Urdu are distinct languages. Persian is classified as an Iranian language, whereas Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language. They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and hence share some linguistic features due to common descent. However, the majority of influence from Persian is direct, through a process often ...
Website. www.munibamazari.com. Muniba Mazari Baloch (Urdu: منیبہ مزاری; born 3 March 1987, also known as the Iron Lady of Pakistan[1]) is a Pakistani activist, anchor artist, model, singer and motivational speaker. She became the National Ambassador UN Women Pakistan by BBC in 2015. She also made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for ...
Demographics of Karachi. Trend of population growth (in millions) in Karachi. Karachi is the largest and most populous city in Pakistan. The population of Karachi is estimated to be around 16 million (16,093,786) in 2020. [1] The population and demographic distribution in the megacity has undergone numerous changes over the past 150 years.
Description. Urdu-speakers by Pakistani District - 2017 Census.svg. English: The map above shows the percentage of Pakistanis who spoke Urdu as their mother tongue in each Pakistani district according to the final official results of the 2017 Pakistan Population & Housing Census. The data can be found here. Linguistic data for the territories ...