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I’m sure there are plenty of people who aren’t Mohajirs who speak Urdu at home but a lot of those people are going to be making a political statement more than

I’m sure there are plenty of people who aren’t Mohajirs who speak Urdu at home but a lot of those people are going to be making a political statement more than one that a linguist would agree with. You see the same shading of reality in Ireland where 10% of the population say they speak Irish weekly or in Ukraine where the number of people who said they were native speakers of Ukrainian rather than Russian jumped dramatically after the Russian invasion.

abdullahkhalids 6y ago
I understand what you are saying, but I think a likelier explanation is that a small percentage of the population of modern day Pakistan were already Urdu speakers before partition. I am open to changing my mind or confirming my theory, given empirical evidence.
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  To give you an example, listen to Waseem Akhtar criticizing Ch. Nisar. https://youtu.be/qeXlgNZTcmA https://youtu.be/qeXlgNZTcmA You can tell by his grammar that his family belongs to UP.