Hindustani Muslims
Hindustani Muslims are the Urdu-speaking, Hindustani people of Muslim faith. Hindustani Muslims include: *Hyderabadi Muslims, Urdu-speaking Muslims from Hyderabad, India *Muslims of Uttar Pradesh, India *Muhajir people of Pakistan *Bihari Muslims of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh See also *Hindustani language *Islam in South Asia Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 600 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region's population. History of Islam in South Asia started along the coastal regions of the Indian subcontinent a ... Muslim communities of India {{ethno-stub ...
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Urdu-speaking
Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu) and the Muhajir people of Pakistan. The historical centres of Urdu speakers include Delhi and Lucknow, as well as the Deccan, and more recently, Karachi. Another defunct variety of the language was historically spoken in Lahore but centuries before the name "Urdu" first began to appear. However, little is known about this defunct Lahori variety as it has not been spoken for centuries. Although the majority of Urdu-speakers reside in Pakistan (including 30 million native speakers, and up to 94 million second-language speakers), where Urdu is the national and official language, most speakers who use Urdu as their native tongue live in India, where it is one of 22 official languages. The Urdu-speaking community is also present in other parts of th ...
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