WHAT LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN PAKISTAN?

WHAT LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN PAKISTAN?

Language                                          (%)

Punjabi                                             48.17

Pashto                                              13.14

Sindhi                                               11.77

Seraiki                                              9.83

Urdu                                                 7.6

Baluchi                                             3.04

Hindko                                              2.43

Brahui                                               1.21

Others                                               2.81

HOW DID URDU BECOME AN IMPORTANT LANGUAGE?

By the end of the Mughal emperors .  Urdu was the most used language in the Muslim dominated noth-western provinces. Urdu language emerged thousands of years ago. Urdu is a Tartar word for military camp. It was a result of Turkish, Persian and Hindu soldiers, and local people mixing  together in their camps. Words from all three languages,  though mostly  Hindi together with some Arabic and local Prakit all went into Urdu. At first it was only used by the soldiers and local people, but educated Hindus and Muslims still used Persian. Shah Wali Ullah wrote in Persian but his sons translated the Quran into Urdu. Later poets and writers also started using Urdu.  After  the Era of Aurangzeb all official documents were written in Urdu.