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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
Pakistan is a multilingual country with dozens of languages spoken as first languages.<br> | |||
'''Urdu''' is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan and shares official status with '''English'''.<br> | |||
It is the preferred and predominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups.<br> | |||
Languages with more than a million speakers consist of: <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Pakistan," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Pakistan, accessed 22 May 2023.</ref><br> | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language '''Punjabi'''] - 38.78% | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto '''Pashto'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language '''Sindhi'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraiki_language '''Saraiki'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu '''Urdu'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochi_language '''Balochi'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindko '''Hindko'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahari-Pothwari '''Pahari-Pothwari'''] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahui_language '''Brahui'''] | |||
The number of languages listed for Pakistan is 72 with others being endangered. | |||
==Word List(s)== | ==Word List(s)== | ||
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==Additional Resources== | ==Additional Resources== | ||
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*[http://mylanguages.org/learn_pashto.php Pashto grammar and language basics] | *[http://mylanguages.org/learn_pashto.php Pashto grammar and language basics] | ||
'''List of Languages''' | |||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_language '''Aer'''] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_language '''Aer'''] | ||