Siraiki language
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- Work cat.: Schackle, C. Siraiki language of Central Pakistan, 1976:p. 1 (Siraiki, the Indo-Aryan speech of a large part of central Pakistan, which may be more familiar ... under the names of "Multani," "Southern Lahnda" or even "Western Panjabi") p. 2 (Northern Lahnda and Panjabi are the languages most closely related to Siraiki, which also shares other features exclusively with Sindhi ...) p. 6ff (dialects ... Central, Southern, Sindhi Siraiki, Northern, Jhangi, Shahpuri ...)
- Ethnologue:p. 576 (Siraiki (Riasiti, Bahawalpuri, Multani, Southern Panjabi, Saraiki ... Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern zone. Dialects: Derawali, Multani (Khatki), Bahawalpuri (Riasati, Reasati), Jangli, Jatki ... Until recently considered to be a dialect of Panjabi) p. 484 (Siraiki (Multani, Mutani, Southern Panjabi, Saraiki) ... Mainly in Pakistan. Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern zone, Lahnda, Western. Dialects: Jafri, Siraiki Hindki, Thali, Jatki)
- Voegelin lang.:p. 169 (Siraiki listed as dialect of Sindhi)
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Saraiki (Shahmukhi: سرائیکی, Gurmukhi: ਸਰਾਇਕੀ, Sarā'īkī, Saraiki pronunciation: [səɾaːiːkiː]; also spelt Siraiki, or Seraiki) is a language of Lahnda dialect continuum within the Punjabi language variety of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken by 28.84 million people, as per the 2023 Pakistani census, mostly in southern Punjab, northern Sindh and southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Saraiki is also spoken in Indian Punjab by Sikhs and Hindus who migrated from the southern regions of West Punjab in 1947 and write it using the Gurmukhi (and even sometimes Devanagari) script. Saraiki has partial mutual intelligibility with Standard Punjabi, and it shares with it a large portion of its vocabulary and morphology. At the same time in its phonology it is radically different (particularly in the lack of tones, the preservation of the voiced aspirates and the development of implosive consonants), and has important grammatical features in common with the Sindhi language spoken to the south. Due to the effects of dominant languages in Pakistani media like Urdu, Standard Punjabi and English and the religious impact of Arabic and Persian, Saraiki, like other regional language varieties of Pakistan, is continuously expanding its vocabulary base with loan words.
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