Country Info

Pakistan Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 112,503,832 people (55% of Pakistan) that can read or write at least one language.

23 Writing Systems used in Pakistan

Urdu (Arabic)

ur-arab
language code
194,678,750
people

Punjabi (Arabic)

pa-arab
language code
143,447,500
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
102,462,500
people

Lahnda (Arabic)

lah-arab
language code
81,970,000
people

Pashto (Arabic)

ps-arab
language code
30,738,750
people

Sindhi (Arabic)

sd-arab
language code
24,591,000
people

Saraiki (Arabic)

skr-arab
language code
18,648,175
people

Baluchi (Arabic)

bal-arab
language code
7,582,225
people

Brahui (Arabic)

brh-arab
language code
2,664,024
people

Northern Hindko (Arabic)

hno-arab
language code
2,459,100
people

Persian (Arabic)

fa-arab
language code
1,352,505
people

Western Balochi (Arabic)

bgn-arab
language code
1,168,072
people

Southern Hindko (Arabic)

hnd-arab
language code
840,192
people

Tajik (Arabic)

tg-arab
language code
676,252
people

Gujari (Arabic)

gju-arab
language code
409,850
people

Balti (Arabic)

bft-arab
language code
368,865
people

Parkari Koli (Arabic)

kvx-arab
language code
327,879
people

Khowar (Arabic)

khw-arab
language code
307,387
people

Indus Kohistani (Arabic)

mvy-arab
language code
286,895
people

Wadiyara Koli (Arabic)

kxp-arab
language code
245,909
people

Kachi Koli (Arabic)

gjk-arab
language code
225,417
people

Kashmiri (Arabic)

ks-arab
language code
141,398
people

Bateri (Devanagari)

btv-deva
language code
38,935
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR