Main article: Statistics Following are the major languages spoken in Pakistan, by number of people that speak them as their first language. [ ] Numbers of speakers of larger languages Language 2008 estimate 1998 census Areas of Predominance 1 76,367,360 44.17% 58,433,431 44.15% 2 26,692,890 15.44% 20,408,621 15.42% 3 24,410,910 14.12% 18,661,571 14.10% Rural 4 18,019,610 10.42% 13,936,594 10.53% 5 13,120,540 7.59% 10,019,576 7.57% Urban and urban Pakistan 6 6,204,540 3.59% 4,724,871 3.57% • was included with in 1951 and 1961 census • Being the national language, Urdu is spoken and understood by the majority of Pakistanis and is being adopted increasingly as a first language by urbanized Pakistanis. National language. An example of the script used for writing ( اردو‬) is the ( قومی زبان‬), lingua franca and one of two official languages of Pakistan (the other currently being English).

Although only about 8% of Pakistanis speak it as their first language, it is widely spoken and understood as a second language by the vast majority of Pakistanis and is being adopted increasingly as a first language by urbanized Pakistanis. It was introduced as the upon the capitulation and annexation of (1843) and (1849) with the subsequent ban on the use of. Nd Bhatt Engineering Drawing Ebook Pdf File here. According to the linguistic historian, however, the oldest name of what is now called Urdu is or Hindvi and it existed in some form at least from the 14th century if not earlier (Rahman 2011). It was probably the of the area around Delhi that absorbed words of Persian, Arabic, and (a Turkic language)—in a process like the one that created modern English. This language, according to Rahman, is the ancestor of both modern and Urdu. These became two distinct varieties when Urdu was first Persianized in the 18th century and then Hindi was Sanskritized from 1802 onwards. The name Urdu is a short form of 'Zuban-e-Urdu-e-Mualla' i.e.