Saraiki ( سرائیکی Sarā'īkī; also spelt Siraiki, or Seraiki) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda group, spoken by around 28 million people primarily...
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Pakistan. They are multi-ethnic in origin and speak the Saraiki language. The region inhabited by Saraiki people is known as Saraik or Saraikistan, which comprises...
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Saraiki literature refers to works written in Saraiki, an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken in the southern regions of Punjab, Pakistan. Written...
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Look up Saraiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saraiki, Siraiki or Seraiki may refer to: Saraiki language, an Indo-Aryan language of central Pakistan...
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Saraiki culture is the culture of the Saraiki people, residing in Pakistan and outside Pakistan. The traditional dress of Saraiki People is the Shalwar...
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later be called Saraiki, as well as for Khetrani. Jaṭkī is also attested in local use in Balochistan as a name for these two languages as well as for Sindhi...
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Saraiki cuisine (Saraiki: سرائیکی کھاݨیں) refers to the native cuisine of the Saraiki people in central Pakistan. It is one of the key part of the Pakistani...
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Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Urdu, Balochi, Persian, Hindko, Pahari-Pothwari and Brahui. There are approximately 60 local languages with fewer than a million...
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"Kerdar Nik" (Good Deeds). In the Pashto language, Nika is a male given name meaning "grandfather". In Saraiki language Nika means "little" and used to be a...
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Shakir Shuja Abadi (category Saraiki-language poets)
Dr. Shakir Shujabadi (Urdu: شاکر شجاع آبادی) is a prominent Saraiki-language poet (born February 25 February 1954) in Shujabad, a small city near Multan...
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There are three writing systems for Saraiki: Multani is a Brahmic script originating in the Multan region of Punjab. The script was used for routine writing...
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Tank (city) (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Pashto and Saraiki (locally called Hinko) are the two languages spoken in Tank. The vast majority of people are conversant in the Pashto language as majority...
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little similarity with the Saraiki language of South Punjab and has variously been treated either as a dialect of Saraiki or as a dialect of Sindhi. Lasi:...
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Nūn ġuṇnā (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
ن ٹ ھ ڻ Saraiki language, alphabet and pronunciation Urdu alphabet, pronunciation and language Pashto language and alphabet Punjabi language, alphabets...
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belonging to Saraiki cuisine and not the Pashtun or Pakhtoon dish at all.Sohbat or Sobat is a word which predominantly belongs to Saraiki language.It is worthwhile...
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2023 Pakistani census (section Language demographics)
3%. Balochi language increased slightly from 3% to 3.4%. However, Punjabi speaking population reduced to 37%. Sindhi, Pashto and Saraiki speaking population...
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Bahawalpur (princely state) (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Bahawalpur (Urdu, Punjabi: بہاولپُور) was a princely state in subsidiary alliance with British Raj and later Dominion of Pakistan, that was a part of the...
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Khwaja Ghulam Farid (category Saraiki-language poets)
Most of his work is in his mother tongue Multani, or what is now known as Saraiki. However, he also contributed to the Standard Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi...
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Ismail Ahmedani (category Saraiki-language writers)
Ahmedani (1930–2007) (اسماعیل احمدانی) was a Saraiki novelist, fiction writer, and promoter of the Saraiki language. He was born 1 January 1930 in a small village...
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Kashmiri, Saraiki and Sindhi are written in modified versions of the Perso-Arabic script. With this one exception, the scripts of Indian languages are native...
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Akbar Makhmoor (category Saraiki-language poets)
was a notable Saraiki-language poet and lexicographer and was known for compilation of 115,000 words of Saraiki words under title Saraiki Akhar Pothi....
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Voiced bilabial implosive (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki. Vol. 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 28. ISBN 9781614512257. Saraiki has four voiced implosive...
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1981 and 2017 censuses respectively, speakers of the Western Punjabi's Saraiki and Hindko varieties were no longer included in the total numbers for Punjabi...
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Lodhran District (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Lodhran District (Saraiki: ضِلع لودهراں), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, with the city of Lodhran as its capital. Located on the northern...
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Saraiki language, and have majorly diluted into speaking Punjabi or Hindi. Saraikistan Saraiki people List of Saraiki people Saraiki culture Saraiki cuisine...
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Dera Ismail Khan (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Dera Ismail Khan (/deɪrʌ-ɪsmaɪ.iːl-xɑːn/; Urdu and Saraiki: ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان, Pashto: ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital...
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Dera Ismail Khan District (category Articles containing Saraiki-language text)
Dera Ismail Khan District (Urdu and Saraiki: ضلع ڈیره اسماعیل خان, Pashto: دېره اسماعيل خان ولسوالۍ), often abbreviated as D.I. Khan is a district in...
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South Punjab Province (redirect from Saraiki Wasaib)
administrative divisions of the current secretariat: The major language spoken in Southern Punjab is Saraiki. Punjabi and Haryanvi are also spoken. Urdu is the official...
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Sarwani (category Saraiki-language surnames)
Sarwani (Pashto شیروانی) is a Bettani Pashtun tribe. Sherwani, Shervani or Sarwani (Pashto شیروانی) is a Pashtun tribe primarily found in Afghanistan with...
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The literary languages that have developed on the basis of dialects of this area are Standard Punjabi in eastern and central Punjab, Saraiki in the southwest...
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