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Although the majority of Urdu-speakers reside in Pakistan (including 30 million native speakers, [5] and up to 94 million second-language speakers), [10] where Urdu is the national and official language, most speakers who use Urdu as their native tongue live in northern India, where it is one of 22 official languages.
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
Urdu is the sole national, and one of the two official languages of Pakistan (along with English). [104] It is spoken and understood throughout the country, whereas the state-by-state languages (languages spoken throughout various regions) are the provincial languages, although only 7.57% of Pakistanis speak Urdu as their first language. [162]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
(excl. Urdu) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 264 million 609 million Spanish (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 486 million 74 million 560 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0 [a] 332 million 332 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 74 million 238 million 312 ...
Pages in category "Countries and territories where Urdu is an official language" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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There are many regional languages and dialects (the latter are often unintelligible from other dialects of the "same language"). Many high-school and college educated Pakistanis are trilingual, being able to speak English and Urdu as well as their own regional language with varying fluency. Sri Lanka. Sinhala and Tamil are official languages ...