Punjabi Muslims
Ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مُسَّلماں; romanized: Pañjābī Musal'mã) are ethnic Punjabis who are adherents of Islam; they constitute the largest religious subdivision within the Punjabi people with a population of more than 112 million.[4][5] They are the third-largest ethnic group among Muslims, globally,[6] after Arabs[7] and Bengalis.[8]
پنجابی مُسَّلماں | |
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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 | |
L1: Punjabi (various dialects) L2: Hindi-Urdu • English | |
Religion | |
Islam (Sunni majority, Shia minority) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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.