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In Pakistan, the Shina, who are also known as Gilgitis there, is the major ethnic group of Gilgit-Baltistan and the Shina language is spoken by an estimated 600,000 people living mainly in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kohistan.
Shina (ݜݨیاٗ,شِْنْیٛا Ṣiṇyaá, IPA:) is a Dardic language of Indo-Aryan language family spoken by the Shina people. [4] [5] In Pakistan, Shina is the major language in Gilgit-Baltistan spoken by an estimated 1,146,000 people living mainly in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kohistan.
The Yashkun People or Yashkuns (Shina: یشکن) are a sub-group of the Shina, a Dardic-speaking ethnic group, most of whom reside in the Gilgit division of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral and Kohistan districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1] They speak a Dardic language called Shina and are scattered throughout northern Pakistan.
Pakistan's census does not include the 1.4 million citizens of Afghanistan who are temporarily residing in Pakistan. [8] [9] [10] The majority of them were born in Pakistan within the last four decades and mostly belong to the Pashtun ethnic group. They also include Tajiks, Uzbeks and others. [11]
Shina people (2 P) Ethnic groups in Sindh (8 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Pakistan" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
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[2] [3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [4] [5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups.
Shina may refer to: Kohistani Shina language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan; Shina language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Shina people, an ethnic group in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan