Languages of Pakistan include two official languages: Urdu and English and four major provincial languages: Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Balochi. Urdu is also Pakistan's national language and lingua franca. Other major regional languages include Saraiki, Hindko and Brahui. There are also numerous minor languages.
Most of the languages of Pakistan belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family.
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“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)