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The Urdu-speaking community is also present in other parts of the subcontinent with a historical Muslim presence, such as the Deccanis, the Biharis [16] and Dhakaiyas (who speak Dhakaiya Urdu) in Bangladesh, [113] the Urdu-speaking members of the Madheshi community in Nepal, [114] some Muslims in Sri Lanka [115] and a section of Burmese Indians ...
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; the seventh most spoken language, Bengali; and thirteenth most spoken language, Punjabi.
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.
There are around 250 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. [1] Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, [2] Bangladesh, [3] the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan [citation needed] and Sri Lanka. [4]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 December 2024. Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups primarily concentrated in South Asia This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (January 2021 ...
There are many Pashto-speaking Pakhtuns in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. [28] Although their exact numbers are hard to determine, they are at least more than 100,000, for it is known that in 1954, over 100,000 nomadic Pakhtuns living in Kashmir Valley were granted Indian citizenship. [ 29 ]
The Vedda language of Sri Lanka is likely an isolate that has mixed with Sinhala. the two Andamanese language families: Great Andamanese and Ongan; Sentinelese remains undocumented to date, and hence unclassified. unclassified languages in Southeast Asia: Kenaboi.
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) speakers in the Himalayas and northeastern parts of the South Asia speak various languages belonging to Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. [ 16 ] The Austroasiatic ( AA ) speakers of South Asia are scattered in parts of Central , Eastern and Northeastern India as well in parts of Nepal and Bangladesh .