Back Saraiki Afrikaans सराइकी ANP اللغة السرائيكية Arabic سرائیک دیلی AZB সারাইকি ভাষা Bengali/Bangla Seraiki (llengua) Catalan زمانی سەرائیکی CKB Saraiki German زبان سرائیکی Persian Saraiki Finnish
| Saraiki | |
|---|---|
| سرائیکی | |
 | |
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Southern Punjab.[1] Minority in Derajat[2] and Northern Sindh[3] |
| Ethnicity | Saraiki, Baloch [4] |
Native speakers | 28.84 Million[5] |
| Perso-Arabic (Saraiki alphabet) Devanagari Gurmukhi Multani | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Saraiki area study centre (SASC), BZU Multan |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | skr |
| Glottolog | sera1259 |
 The proportion of people with Saraiki as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census | |
Saraiki ( سرائیکی Sarā'īkī; also spelt Siraiki, or Seraiki) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda group.[6] It is spoken by 28.84 million people, as per the 2023 Pakistani census, taking prevalence in Southern Punjab with remants in Northern Sindh and the Derajat region.[7]
Saraiki has partial mutual intelligibility with Standard Punjabi,[8] and it shares with it a large portion of its vocabulary and morphology. At the same time in its phonology it is radically different[9] (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.[10] Saraiki is closely related to Western Punjabi dialects.[6]
Due to effects of dominant languages in Pakistani media like Urdu, Standard Punjabi and English and religious impact of Arabic and Persian, Saraiki like other regional varieties of Pakistan are continuously expanding its vocabulary base with loan words.[11]
- ^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/table_11_punjab_province.pdf
- ^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/table_11_kp_province.pdf
- ^ https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2023/tables/table_11_sindh_province.pdf
- ^ Grierson, George Abraham (1919). Linguistic survery of India specimens of Sindhi and Lahnda vol.8; pt.1. p. 240.
- ^ "Population by mother tongue, sex and rural/urban, census-2023" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2024.
- ^ a b Grierson, George Abraham (1919). Linguistic survery of India specimens of Sindhi and Lahnda vol.8; pt.1. p. 233.
The existence of Lahnda as a separate language has long been recognised under various names such as Jatki, Multani, Hindki or Hindko and Western Panjabi....it is called Multani, but this name properly applies only to the form of Lahnda spoken around Multan and the neighbourhood.
- ^ "Key Findings Report - The Largest Digitization Exercise of South Asia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2024.
- ^ Bashir, Conners & Hefright 2019; see also Rahman 1995, p. 16 and Shackle 2014b.
- ^ Shackle 1977, p. 389.
- ^ Shackle 2014b.
- ^ Shams, Shammim Ara (2020). "The Impact of Dominant Languages on Regional Languages: A Case Study of English, Urdu and Shina". Pakistan Social Sciences Review. 4 (III): 1092–1106. doi:10.35484/pssr.2020(4-III)79.