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ETHNONYM: Shaikh
The Sheikhs are Sunni Muslims, widespread in northern and central India as well as Pakistan and all of Bangladesh. Of the fou… Arabic Languages , Arabic languages, members of the West Semitic group of the Semitic subdivision of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). Th… Arab , A person who speaks Arabic as a first language and self-identifies as Arab.
Arabs comprise less than one-quarter of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.… Muslim , Muslims
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