Lubanki, also known as Labanki, is an extinct Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken by the

Labana Lubana (also spelled Lubana, Labana, Lavana, Lubhana; ) is a merchant and transportation community in India engaged in maritime trade and land trade which includes trading and transportation of goods like saltpetre, silk, diamonds, etc. In the P ...

tribe in the

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. It was a

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of Linguistics, linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety (linguisti ...

of Labanas, being a mixture of Marwari, Saraiki, Gujarati and Marathi. The dialect is extinct among Labanas of Punjab, but Rajasthani Labanas still speak it. Among Sikhs, the famous Labanki quote Guru Ladho Re(Found the Guru) was outspoken when Makhan Shah identify the 9th successor of Nanak, Guru Tegh Bahadur.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20080908091840/http://www.labana.org/world/index.php Punjabi dialects Labana {{language-stub