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=== Languages === {{Pie chart |caption = Languages of Sindh (2023) |label1 = [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] |value1 = 60.14 |color1 = gold |label2 = [[Urdu]] |value2 = 22.3 |color2 = crimson |label3 = [[Pashto]] |value3 = 5.31 |color3 = royalblue |label4 = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] |value4 = 4.07 |color4 = saddlebrown |label5 = [[Balochi language|Balochi]] |value5 = 2.17 |color5 = goldenrod |label6 = [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] |value6 = 1.64 |color6 = darkblue |label7 = [[Hindko]] |value7 = 1.49 |color7 = wheat |label8 = Others |value8 = 2.88 |color8 = grey }} According to the [[2023 Pakistani census|2023 census]], the most widely spoken language in the province is [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], the first language of 33,462,299 {{sigfig|60.14|2}}% of the population. It is followed by [[Urdu]] 12,409,745 ({{sigfig|22.3|2}}%), then [[Pashto]] 2,955,893 ({{sigfig|5.31|2}}%), [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] 2,265,471 ({{sigfig|4.07|2}}%), [[Balochi language|Balochi]] 1,208,147 ({{sigfig|2.17|2}}%), [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] 913,418 ({{sigfig|1.64|2}}%), and [[Hindko]] 830,581 ({{sigfig|1.49|2}}), Brahui 265,769, Mewati 57,059, Kashmiri 53,249, Balti 27,193, Shina 22,273, Koshistani 14,885, 777 Kalasha and others are 1,151,650,<ref>{{Cite web| title=Population by mother tongue, sex and rural/urban, census-2023 | url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/sindh/dcr/table_11.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723204859/https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/sindh/dcr/table_11.pdf | archive-date=2024-07-23}}</ref> Other minority languages include [[Kutchi language|Kutchi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]],<ref name="Rehman-2015">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/57104-with-a-handful-of-subberstwo-newspapers-barely-keeping-gujarati-alive-in-karachi|title=With a handful of subbers, two newspapers barely keeping Gujarati alive in Karachi|last=Rehman|first=Zia Ur|date=18 August 2015|work=The News International|access-date=13 January 2017|quote=In Pakistan, the majority of Gujarati-speaking communities are in Karachi including Dawoodi Bohras, Ismaili Khojas, Memons, Kathiawaris, Katchhis, Parsis (Zoroastrians) and Hindus, said Gul Hasan Kalmati, a researcher who authored "Karachi, Sindh Jee Marvi", a book discussing the city and its indigenous communities. Although there are no official statistics available, community leaders claim that there are three million Gujarati-speakers in Karachi β roughly around 15 percent of the city's entire population.}}</ref> [[Aer language|Aer]], [[Bagri language|Bagri]], [[Bhaya language|Bhaya]], [[Brahui language|Brahui]], [[Dhatki language|Dhatki]], [[Ghera language|Ghera]], [[Goaria language|Goaria]], [[Gurgula language|Gurgula]], [[Jadgali language|Jadgali]], [[Jandavra language|Jandavra]], [[Jogi language|Jogi]], [[Kabutra language|Kabutra]], [[Kachi Koli]], [[Parkari Koli language|Parkari Koli]], [[Wadiyari Koli]], [[Loarki language|Loarki]], [[Marwari language|Marwari]], [[Sansi language|Sansi]], and [[Vaghri language|Vaghri]].<ref>{{cite web|editor-last1 = Eberhard| editor-first1 = David M.| editor-last2 = Simons| editor-first2 = Gary F.| editor-last3 =Fennig |editor-first3 = Charles D.| year=2019|title = Pakistan - Languages|website=[[Ethnologue]]|edition=22nd|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PK/languages}}</ref> [[Karachi]] city is Sindh's most multiethnic city which hosts most of the province's Urdu-speaking population who form a plurality, along many other groups.<ref name="Merinews.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.merinews.com/article/political-and-ethnic-battles-turn-karachi-into-beirut-of-south-asia/15875445.shtml|title=Political and ethnic battles turn Karachi into Beirut of South Asia " Crescent|publisher=Merinews.com|access-date=2012-11-24|archive-date=30 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130080304/http://www.merinews.com/article/political-and-ethnic-battles-turn-karachi-into-beirut-of-south-asia/15875445.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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