Lahanda

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Lahanda is an alternative name for Lahnda, a group of closely related Indo-Aryan languages spoken primarily in western Pakistan.

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Lahanda canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
language group
language group
alternativeNameOf Lahnda
glottocode lahn1241
hasAlternativeName Lahnda languages
Western Punjabi
linked to: Pahari-Pothwari
hasDialect Hindko
Jatki
Khetrani
Pahari-Pothwari
Saraiki
hasISOCode lah
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
tonal contrasts in some varieties
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past tenses
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
neighboringLanguage Balochi
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Punjabi
Sindhi
region Azad Kashmir
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Punjab (Pakistan)
linked to: Punjab, Pakistan
sometimesClassifiedAs dialects of Punjabi
separate languages
spokenIn Pakistan
spokenPrimarilyIn western Pakistan
studiedInDiscipline historical linguistics
sociolinguistics
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
usedBy Hindko-speaking communities
Saraiki people
ethnic groups of western Punjab
writingSystem Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

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Lahnda hasAlternativeName Lahanda