2020/11/23 by Firdos Atta, Jeroen van de Weijer, Lei Zhu · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Bengali #Geography #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Socioeconomics #Sociology #Urdu
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100320000328
openalex publication_date 2020/11/23 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/18
Saraiki (ISO 639-3:skr) is an Indo-Aryan language widely used in Pakistan and India (Bashir, Conners & Hefright 2019). The variety described here is Central Saraiki, spoken in the districts of Multan, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur and the northern parts of Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan, which form the largest of the Saraiki-speaking areas.1 Geographically, Pakistan is divided into four provinces, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhton Khaw (KPK) and Balochistan. Punjabi is spoken in Punjab, and Sindhi is the dominant language in Sindh. Most Pashto speakers live in KPK and Balochistan, while the inhabitants of Balochistan speak Balochi, Brahui and Saraiki. Other than Urdu, Saraiki is the only language which is spoken in all four provinces of Pakistan, with a majority of speakers in southern Punjab.