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  2. Ethnic groups in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Muhajirs (meaning "migrants"), are a collective multiethnic group who emerged through the migration of Indian Muslims from various parts of India to Pakistan starting in 1947, as a result of the world's largest mass migration. [25] [26] The majority of Muhajirs are settled in Sindh mainly in Karachi and Hyderabad.

  3. West Indian - Wikipedia

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    A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."

  4. Indo-Aryan peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 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 ...

  5. Languages of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    An English-Urdu bilingual sign at the archaeological site of Sirkap, near Taxila. The Urdu says: (right to left) دو سروں والے عقاب کی شبيہ والا مندر, dō sarōñ wālé u'qāb kī shabīh wāla mandir. "The temple with the image of the eagle with two heads." Most languages of Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic ...

  6. Urdu-speaking people - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu language was used in the emergence of a political Muslim self-consciousness. [37] Syed Ahmed Khan converted the existing cultural and religious entity among Indian Muslims into a separatist political force, throwing a Western cloak of nationalism over the Islamic concept of culture.

  7. Ethnic groups in Karachi - Wikipedia

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    The ethnic groups in Karachi includes all the ethnic groups in Pakistan. Main ethnic group " Muhajirs " are in simple majority in Karachi with 50.60% of its population while Pathans are in second with 13.52 and Sindhi are in third number with only 11.12% according to 2023 Pakistani census.

  8. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu (/ ˈ ʊər d uː /; اُردُو, pronounced ⓘ, ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan.

  9. West Indian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Caribbean Americans or West Indian Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to the West Indies in particular or Caribbean in general. Caribbean Americans are a multi-ethnic and multi-racial group that trace their ancestry further in time to Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. As of 2016, about 13 million ...