Languages of Pakistan

Languages of Pakistan
Languages of Pakistan
	Dominant mother tongue in the districts of Pakistan
Official	Urdu, English
National	Urdu
Regional	Balochi; Balti; Brahui; Burushaski; Dhatki; Gujari; Hazaragi; Hindko; Kashmiri; Khowar; Kohistani; Kyrgyz; Marwari; Pashto; Punjabi; Pahari-Pothwari; Parkari Koli; Saraiki; Shina; Sindhi; Turkmen; Uzbek; Wakhi
Signed	Pakistani Sign Language
Keyboard layout	QWERTY and Urdu keyboard; ;

Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family.

Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups. Numerous regional languages are spoken as first languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups. Languages with more than a million speakers each include Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Urdu, Balochi, Hindko, Pahari-Pothwari and Brahui. There are approximately 60 local languages with fewer than a million speakers.

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