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Saraiki is the first language of approximately 29 million people in Pakistan according to the 2023 census. [7] The first national census of Pakistan to gather data on the prevalence of Saraiki was the census of 1981. [43] In that year, the percentage of respondents nationwide reporting Saraiki as their native language was 9.83.
Riasti is a term used for a group of Lahnda varieties spoken in the Cholistan Desert along the banks of the river Sutlej in the southern Punjab, Pakistan.Its definition is imprecise, and is usually taken to refer to the central and southern dialects of Saraiki language which were spoken in the former riasat (transl. state) of Bahawalpur, in what are now the Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan ...
Saraiki has a 43-letter alphabet which include four letters that are not used in standard Shahmukhi. [3] Another difference the Saraiki alphabet has with standard Shahmukhi is the disuse of the already uncommon Lam with tah above which is present in the standard form.
It was used to write Saraiki, often considered a dialect of Lahnda group of languages. [1] The script was used for routine writing and commercial activities. Multani is one of four Landa scripts whose usage was extended beyond the mercantile domain and formalized for literary activity and printing; the others being Gurmukhi, Khojki, and Khudabadi.
Saraiki was added to the census in 1981, and Hindko was added in 2017, prior to which both were represented by Lahnda language. In areas such as Gujar Khan and Rawalpindi where Pothwari is a spoken language, [16] speakers significantly selected 'Punjabi" instead of "Other" in all previous census enumeration. [17]
Jangli's sound inventory includes implosive consonants, but unlike in Saraiki these do not have phonemic status, as they do not contrast with plain voiced consonants. [4] The implosives are more common than in Saraiki, and their set contains the unusual for the area dental implosive (/ɗ̪/), which contrasts with the regular retroflex implosive /ᶑ/.
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