Seraiki people
Seraiki people Seraikis Total population: 16 million Significant populations in: Significant populations in: Pakistan Language: Majority Seraiki language Religion: Islam Related ethnic groups: Punjabis, Dogra The Seraiki people (also Saraiki people) are an ...
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Seraiki Literature
Seraiki Literature Seraiki literature is the literature if the Seraiki language (sometimes written as Siraiki) which is mostly ... people for whom it is their first language. Seraiki has a very rich tradition ...
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Siraiki language
Siraiki language Siraiki (also known as Seraiki, Multani and Southern Punjabi) is an old language or dialect mostly spoken in central Pakistan ... people[1]. It is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. Siraiki shows ... widely spoken and understood as a second language in northern and western Sindh down ...
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Urdu
... a near tie with Italian and Turkish Language family: Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan ... Hindi languages Hindustani Urdu Official status Official language of: Pakistan;Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh ... Delhi (India). Regulated by: no official regulation Language codes ISO 639-1: ur ISO 639 ... in Unicode. Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed ... approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the ...
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Languages of Pakistan
... and northwest. History Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and has historical significance as a language developed during the Islamic conquests in the ... Empire and was chosen as a neutral language to unite the various groups of modern ... However it is English which is the language of government and commerce. Most Secondry educational ... Siraiki (sometimes included within Punjabi, also called Seraiki, Sira'iki , Lahndi , Multani - from the ...
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Demographics of Pakistan
... or more languages. Major languages The official language of Pakistan is English. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca, although it is spoken as a first language by approximately 8% of the population. ~44% speak Punjabi as a first language, 15% Pashto, and 31% other languages such ... and Brahui.) English English is the official language, being widely used within the government, ...
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Mutually intelligible languages
... least one or more of the other language(s) without intentional study or extraordinary effort ... achieve moderate proficiency or understanding in a language (called L2) other than their mother tongue or first language (L1) typically requires considerable time and effort ... pronunciation, or other features, speakers of one language usually find it relatively easy to achieve ... some degree of understanding in the related language(s). Languages mutually intelligible but not ...
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Seraikistan
... region of southern Punjab (Pakistan) inhabited by Seraiki speaking people. The Seraiki nationalist movement wish to separate the Seraiki speaking region into a new province of Seraikistan. The Seraiki region is bordered by Punjab (Pakistan), Sindh ... and Balochistan provinces. Siraiki (also known as Seraiki, Multani and Southern Punjabi) is an ...
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Mianwali
... Khan Essa Khailwi, an internationally famous Siraiki language folk artist, is from a sub district ... of present Afghanistan, Niazis in Mianwali speak Seraiki. It is believed that their original language was Pashto but like other tribes who ... communicating with local people, left their original language as they were segregated from main pashto ... applied to certain Balouch tribes who speak seraiki language in DG Khan division. Niazis ...
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Talk:Punjabi people
... now it goes straigh to the punjabi language. Aarandir 10:52, 30 January 2006 (UTC ... look for 'Punjabi' are looking for the language. There is a disambiguation page already available from the Punjabi language page. You will need to get an ... separate languages? Are we treating Hindki, Multani (Seraiki) and Dogri as different languages - i.e ... Catalan and point to their differences in language, however slight to a foreigner such ...
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