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Languages Spoken in Pakistan

Official: English and Urdu

Pakistan has a population of 252.4 million and is a linguistically diverse country, with 12 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. English and Urdu serve as the official languages. Of the languages spoken in Pakistan, 6 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

252.4M
Population
12
Languages
6
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Languages spoken in Pakistan

Urdu Official
Urdu orthography
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95%
CLDR
Punjabi
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
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70%
CLDR
English Official
English Braille, English alphabet
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50%
CLDR
Western Panjabi
40%
CLDR
Pashto
Arabic alphabet, Arabic script
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16%
CLDR
Sindhi
Devanagari Sindhi, Gujarati
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15%
CLDR
Saraiki
Saraiki Shahmukhi
12%
CLDR
Baluchi
Balochi Cyrillic Alphabet, Balochi Roman Orthography
3%
CLDR
Northern Hindko
2%
CLDR
Brahui
Brolikva, Perso-Arabic script
1%
CLDR
Persian (Farsi)
Arabic script, Persian alphabet
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0.7%
CLDR
Western Balochi
Balochi Roman Orthography, Balochi Standard Orthography
0.6%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"Punjabi 38.8%, Pashto (alternate name, Pashtu) 18.2%, Sindhi 14.6%, Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 12.2%, Urdu 7.1%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2.4%, Brahui 1.2%, other 2.4%"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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