Wednesday, March 18, 2009

About Karachi the Metro City of Pakistan

Language.

Historically, Balochi and later Sindhi was spoken by the native population before the British conquest in 1834 by Charles James Napier. During British rule, many Gujrati and Parsi business families and Christian Goans bureaucracy migrated from Bombay Presidency to Karachi as it was being devolped as a major port. After independence of Pakistan in 1947, Muslim refugees (Muhajirs) migrated to Karachi. The vast majority of Muhajirs spoke Urdu. Today Karachi is predominantlry Urdu speaking city with many other languages also spoken in the city.
The current estimated linguistic distribution of the city is:


Urdu: 48.52%;
Sindhi: 7.34%;
Punjabi: 13.64%;
Pashto: 11.96%;
Balochi: 4.34%;
Saraiki: 2.11%;
others: 12.09%.

The others include Dari, Gujarati, Dawoodi Bohra, Memon, Marwari, Brahui, Makrani, Khowar, Burushaski, Arabic, Persian and Bengali.

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