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Muslim
Population in Countries using Syllabic base Alphabets
(Non-Latin, Cyrillic, or Arabic Alphabets): |
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Country |
Language |
Alphabet Basis |
Population |
%Muslim |
Muslim Population |
Remarks |
| 1 |
India |
Hindi, Bengali, Tamil |
Devanagari |
1,095,351,995 |
14 |
153,349,279 |
Kashmiri Language uses Arabic Alphabets (4.5
Millions) |
| 2 |
Bangladesh |
Bengali |
Devanagari |
147,365,352 |
88 |
129,681,510 |
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| 3 |
Thailand |
Thai |
Thai |
64,631,595 |
10 |
6,463,160 |
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| 4 |
Burma (Myanmar) |
Burmese |
Burmese |
47,382,633 |
4 |
1,895,305 |
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| 5 |
Sri Lanka |
Sinhala, Tamil |
Sinhala, Dravidian |
20,222,240 |
7 |
1,415,557 |
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| 6 |
Nepal |
Nepali |
Devanagari |
28,287,147 |
3 |
848,614 |
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| 7 |
Maldives Islands |
Dhivehi |
Thaana |
359,008 |
97 |
348,238 |
Invented in 18th Century |
| 8 |
Cambodia |
Cambodian |
Khmer |
13,881,427 |
1 |
138,814 |
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| 9 |
Laos |
Lao |
Lao |
6,368,481 |
0.5 |
31,842 |
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Total: |
1,423,849,878 |
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294,172,320 |
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Charts
created based on 2004 Census projection, considering ± 5% discrepancy
Sources: HFE.org , IslamicPopulation.com
, StrategicNetwork.org
, State.gov , LOC.gov
, HRW.com , USCWM.org
, IslamicNews.org , Aneki.com
, IIIE.net , Photius.com
, Islamic-World.net , Arab.net
, Wikipedia.org , LangMaker.com
, Andaman.org , Omniglot.com |
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