what language do pakistani people talk?
Urdu Language
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 However , the military government formed by Ayub Khan made attempts to re @-@ establish Urdu as the sole national language . On 6 January 1959 , the military regime issued an official statement and reinstated the official stance of supporting the 1956 constitution 's policy of two state languages . 

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 The present nations of Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of undivided India during the British colonial rule . From the mid @-@ 19th century , the Urdu language had been promoted as the lingua franca of Indian Muslims by political and religious leaders , such as Sir Khwaja Salimullah , Sir Syed Ahmed Khan , Nawab Viqar @-@ ul @-@ Mulk and Maulvi Abdul Haq . Urdu is an Indo @-@ Aryan language of the Indo @-@ Iranian branch , belonging to the Indo @-@ European family of languages . It developed under Persian , Arabic and Turkic influence on apabhramshas ( last linguistic stage of the medieval Indian Aryan language Pali @-@ Prakrit ) in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire . With its Perso @-@ Arabic script , the language was considered a vital element of the Islamic culture for Indian Muslims ; Hindi and the Devanagari script were seen as fundamentals of Hindu culture . 

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 On 7 May 1954 , the constituent assembly resolved , with the Muslim League 's support , to grant official status to Bengali . Bengali was recognised as the second official language of Pakistan on 29 February 1956 , and article 214 ( 1 ) of the constitution of Pakistan was reworded to " The state language of Pakistan shall be Urdu and Bengali . " 

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 Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956 , the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of West Pakistan at the expense of East Pakistan . Despite forming the majority of the national population , the East Pakistani population continued to be under @-@ represented in the civil and military services , and received a minority of state funding and other government help . This was mainly due to lack of representative government in the fledgling state . Mainly due to regional economic imbalances sectional divisions grew , and support for the Bengali ethnic nationalist Awami League , which invoked the 6 @-@ point movement for greater provincial autonomy . One demand was that East Pakistan be called Bangladesh ( Land / Country of Bengal ) , which subsequently led to the Bangladesh Liberation War . 

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 Punjabi is the dominant language spoken by over three @-@ fourths of the population . In the south @-@ southwest regions , Saraiki is the common language . The national language is Urdu , which is customarily used between various ethnic groups . 
