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Punjabi is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan. It is spoken as a first language by 38.78% of Pakistanis. [23] The language is spoken among a significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Parda chaak is a weekly news publication being regularly published from Lahore Pakistan. 54 Daily Ausaf: Daily Urdu Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Europe, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan 1997 Its chief editor is Mehtab Khan. Daily Ausaf was inaugurated on 25 December 1997 from Islamabad 55 Daily Aaj: Peshawar, Abbottabad 1989 Editor-in-chief: A.W. Yousfi 56
Despite Urdu being Pakistan's lingua franca, estimates on how many languages are spoken in the country range from 75 to 85, [7] [8] and in 2023, the country's three largest ethnolinguistic groups were the Punjabis (making up 36.98% of the total population), the Pashtuns (18.15%), and the Sindhis (14.31%). [9]
The Daily Express (Urdu: روزنامہ ایکسپریس) is a Pakistani Urdu-language newspaper owned by Lakson Group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is published simultaneously from Islamabad , Karachi , Lahore , Peshawar , Quetta , Multan , Faisalabad , Gujranwala , Sargodha , Rahim Yar Khan and Sukkar .
Despite Urdu being Pakistan's lingua franca, estimates on how many languages are spoken in the country range from 75 to 85, [509] [510] and in 2023, the country's three largest ethnolinguistic groups were the Punjabis (making up 36.98% of the total population), the Pashtuns (18.15%), and the Sindhis (14.31%). [511]
Numerous regional and provincial languages are spoken as native languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups, with the Punjabi language having a national plurality as the first language of approximately 45 per cent of the total population. Languages with more than a million speakers each include Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi ...
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Number of living languages Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1] Total Mean Median Papua New Guinea: 840 0 840 11.81 4,213,381 5,040 1,315 Indonesia: 707 2 709 9.98 222,191,197 315,165 3,500 Nigeria: 525 7 532 7.37 163,317,444 348,225 14,000 India: 453 6 459 ? 1,257,421,714 2,924,237 35,000 China (mainland only) 302 3 305