Language · Indo-European
Urdu
اردو – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 5 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 313 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Arabic
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
- Regional 1
- Minority 3
Co-official
- Pakistan 95% 240 million
Regional
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India
5%
70 million
Official in Jammu and Kashmir; an additional official language in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana and Delhi, among others.
Minority
- United Kingdom 3.5% 2.4 million
- Canada 1.1% 427 thousand
- Mauritius 5.2% 68 thousand