Correction: Urdu in Pakistan, India, and the Diaspora Reference
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Grammar Guide
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
Ethnic Pakistani populations speak Punjabi (about 44 percent), Pashto (about 15 percent), Sindhi (about 14 percent), Saraiki (about 11 percent), and Balochi (about 3 percent) as first languages.
Ethnic Pakistani populations speak Punjabi (about 39 percent), Pashto (about 18 percent), Sindhi (about 15 percent), Saraiki (about 12 percent), and Balochi (about 3 percent) as first languages.
Why this is better
Article cites Pakistan's 2017 census language percentages incorrectly. Verified via web search against actual 2017 Pakistan Bureau of Statistics census data: Punjabi is 38.78% (not 'about 44 percent')
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