Punjabi Muslims
Ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam.[4][5] With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslim ethnicity in the world,[6] after Arabs[7] and Bengalis.[8]
Quick Facts پنجابی مُسَّلماں, Regions with significant populations ...
پنجابی مُسَّلماں | |
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![]() | 111,303,000 (see below) |
![]() | 535,489[1] |
![]() | 500,000[2] |
![]() | 263,699[3] |
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Standard Punjabi, Western Punjabi and its dialects, Urdu | |
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The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. Most of them are primarily geographically native to the Pakistani province of Punjab, but a large group of them have ancestry across the Punjab region as a whole.[4] Punjabi Muslims speak or identify with the Punjabi language (under a Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi) as their mother tongue.