Punjabi Muslims
Ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان) are adherents of Islam who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis. With a population of more than 109 million,[4][5] they are the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and the world's third-largest Islam-adhering ethnicity[6] after Arabs[7] and Bengalis.[8] The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. They are primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan, but many have ancestry from the Punjab region as a whole.
پنجابی مسلمان | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Pakistan | 111,303,000(see below) |
India | 535,489[1] |
United Kingdom | 500,000[2] |
United States | 263,699[3] |
Languages | |
Standard Punjabi, Western Punjabi and its dialects, Urdu | |
Religion | |
Islam (Sunni majority, Shia minority) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Forming the majority of the Punjabi ethnicity in the greater Punjab region[4] Punjabi Muslims speak or identify the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue.