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This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 23 February 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Multi-ethnic group in Pakistan Ethnic group Saraikis سرائیکی Depiction of Saraiki men near Derawar Fort Total population c. 20 million Regions with significant populations Pakistan 20,324,637 Languages Saraiki Religion Majority Sunni Islam ...
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.
Other dialects spoken by Indian Punjabis include Jafri, Saraiki Hindki, Jhangi, Thali, and Jatki. [3] Many Sairaiki-origin people (whose ancestors once lived in British India ) form a distinguished group of doctors, engineers, fashion designers, IT professionals. [ 4 ]
Saraiki is taught as a subject in schools and colleges at higher secondary and intermediate. [15] [16] Saraiki is also taught at degree level at the Allama Iqbal Open University at Islamabad, [17] and the Al-Khair University at Bhimbir have Pakistani Linguistics Departments. They offer M.Phil. and Ph.D in Saraiki.
Implosives: Languages in the Sindhic subfamily, as well as Saraiki, western Marwari dialects, and some dialects of Gujarati have developed implosive consonants from historical intervocalic geminates and word-initial stops.
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Saraiki culture, the culture of the Saraiki Punjabi people of Pakistan; Saraiki diaspora, Saraiki people of Pakistan dispersed around the world; Saraiki literature, the literature of Saraiki Punjabi people of Pakistan; Saraiki music, music of Saraiki Punjabi people of Pakistan; Saraikistan, a geographical region and a proposed province in Pakistan
Lahnda includes the following dialects: Saraiki (spoken mostly in southern Pakistani Punjab by about 26 million people), the Jatki dialects (referred to as Punjabi by their ~50 million speakers, [6] spoken in the Bar region of Punjab) i.e. Jhangvi, Shahpuri and Dhanni, the diverse varieties of Hindko (with almost five million speakers in north ...