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Western Punjabi (other)
Western Punjabi may refer to: *Lahnda, also known as "Western Punjabi", a linguistically defined group of Punjabi dialects and languages, Punjabi dialects and varieties primarily found in Western Punjab *the group of all the Punjabi varieties, whether Lahnda or not, that are spoken in Pakistan *the form of the standard Punjabi language in Pakistan (ISO 639-3: pnb) See also * Lahanda (other) * Western Punjab (other) * Eastern Punjabi (other) * Pakistani Punjabi (other) * Punjabi (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahnda
Lahnda () () also known as Lahndi or Western Punjabi, is a group of north-western Indo-Aryan language varieties spoken in parts of Pakistan and India. Its validity as a genetic grouping is not certain. Terms like ''Lahnda'' or ''Western Punjabi'' are exonyms employed by linguists, and are not used by the speakers themselves. Lahnda includes the following languages: Saraiki (spoken mostly in southern Pakistani Punjab by about 26 million people), the diverse varieties of Hindko (with almost five million speakers in north-western Punjab and neighbouring regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially Hazara), Pahari/Pothwari (3.5 million speakers in north-central Punjab, Azad Kashmir and parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir), Khetrani (20,000 speakers in Balochistan), and Inku (a possibly extinct language of Afghanistan). The languages encyclopedia ''Ethnologue'' also subsumes under Lahnda a group of varieties that it labels as "Western Punjabi" (ISO 639-3 code: ''pnb'') – the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |