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Illustration of a Hindki in Peshawar in the book “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul” (1815) by Mountstuart Elphinstone.. Hindkowans, [1] [2] also known as the Hindki, [3] [4] is a contemporary designation for speakers of Indo-Aryan languages who live among the neighbouring Pashtuns, [5] [2] particularly the speakers of various Hindko dialects of Western Punjabi (Lahnda).
There is a literary tradition based on Peshawari, [6] the urban variety of Peshawar in the northwest, and another one based on the language of Abbottabad in the northeast. [7] In the 2017 census of Pakistan, 5.1 million people declared their language to be Hindko, [1] while a 2020 estimate placed the number of speakers at 7 million. [2]
Hindkowans are NOT counted among the Punjabi speakers in Pakistan and therefore it is wrong adding the Punjabi language tags to this article. Just like it is wrong to say India is a country with a 'significant' population of Hindkowans as it, as mentioned above, housed only about 170 hindkowans the last time the language was a part of its census.
The Pahari people or Pahari-speaking people is a cover term for a number of heterogeneous communities inhabiting in the Indian province of Himachal Pradesh, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Pothohar Plateau, the Hindkowans of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and also some parts of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir who speak Pahari languages/dialects.
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The full quote is "The word evidently just means 'the Indian language', i.e. as distinct from Pashto, although various explanations are offered as to its origin." and then there's a footnote that adds, inter alia, "Grierson took 'Hindko' to mean 'the language of Hindūs', a definition naturally hotly disputed in Pakistan."
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