Lahnda

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Lahnda is a group of Northwestern Indo-Aryan dialects spoken primarily in western Punjab and surrounding regions of Pakistan.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Northwestern Indo-Aryan language group
dialect continuum
consideredBySomeAs group of separate languages
macrolanguage
hasAlternativeName Lahanda
Lahndi
Potohari Punjabi
surface form: Western Panjabi

Potohari Punjabi
surface form: Western Punjabi
hasDialects Derawali
Hindko
Jatki
Khetrani
Mirpuri
Multani
Pothwari
Saraiki
Shapuri
Thali
hasFeature dialectal diversity
mutual intelligibility varying across dialects
tonal contrasts in some dialects
hasGlottocode lahn1241
hasISOCode ISO 639-3: lah
hasNeighboringLanguage Balochi
Kashmiri language
surface form: Kashmiri

Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi

Sindhi
isSubjectOf Linguistic Survey of India
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian
namedBy George Abraham Grierson
partOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
region northwestern India
surface form: Northwestern South Asia

Punjab
surface form: Punjab region
spokenIn Azad Jammu and Kashmir NERFINISHED
Balochistan, Pakistan NERFINISHED
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan NERFINISHED
Pakistan
Potohar Plateau
surface form: Pothohar Plateau

Punjab, Pakistan NERFINISHED
Sindh, Pakistan NERFINISHED
western Punjab region
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
writingSystem Arabic script
Gurmukhi
surface form: Gurmukhi script

Perso-Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

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