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This map shows the percentage of people in each district of Pakistan who spoke Urdu as their mother tongue at the time of the 1998 census.

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English: This map shows the percentage of people in each district of Pakistan who spoke Urdu as their mother tongue at the time of the 1998 census.

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Urdu is a Central Indo-Aryan language that is the official national language of Pakistan and is one of India's many constitutionally recognized official languages. It is spoken by approximately 70 million people worldwide natively. Urdu is Pakistan's lingua franca, and while only 7% of Pakistanis speak Urdu natively, most Pakistanis understand Urdu and speak it as a second language.

In 1998, Urdu was spoken by 7.57% of Pakistanis as a first language (10.02 million). 21% of the population of Sindh, 10% of the population of Islamabad, 4.5% of the population of Punjab, 0.97% of the population of Balochistan, and 0.69% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spoke Urdu natively in 1998.

By 2017, the share of Pakistanis claiming Urdu as their mother tongue had fallen to 7.08% (14.71 million). 18% of the population of Sindh, 12% of the population of Islamabad, 4.9% of the population of Punjab, 0.84% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 0.81% of the population of Balochistan spoke Urdu natively in 2017.
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