Lahnda

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Lahnda is a group of Northwestern Indo-Aryan dialects spoken primarily in western Punjab and surrounding regions of Pakistan.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lahnda canonical 14
Lahnda dialect continuum 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Northwestern Indo-Aryan language group
dialect continuum
consideredBySomeAs group of separate languages
macrolanguage
hasAlternativeName Lahanda
Lahndi
Western Panjabi
linked to: Potohari Punjabi

Western Punjabi
linked to: Potohari Punjabi
hasDialects Derawali
Hindko
Jatki
Khetrani
Mirpuri
Multani
Pothwari
Saraiki
Shapuri
Thali
hasFeature dialectal diversity
mutual intelligibility varying across dialects
tonal contrasts in some dialects
hasGlottocode lahn1241
hasISOCode ISO 639-3: lah
hasNeighboringLanguage Balochi
Kashmiri
linked to: Kashmiri language

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language

Sindhi
isSubjectOf Linguistic Survey of India
languageFamily Indo-Aryan
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
namedBy George Abraham Grierson
partOf Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
region Northwestern South Asia
linked to: northwestern India

Punjab region
linked to: Punjab
spokenIn Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Balochistan, Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
linked to: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pakistan
Pothohar Plateau
linked to: Potohar Plateau

Punjab, Pakistan
Sindh, Pakistan
linked to: Sindh

western Punjab region
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
writingSystem Arabic script
Gurmukhi script
linked to: Gurmukhi

Perso-Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sindhi closelyRelatedTo Lahnda
Potohari subclassOf Lahnda
Seraiki closelyRelatedTo Lahnda
Potohari Punjabi partOf Lahnda dialect continuum
linked to: Lahnda
Pothwari languageBranch Lahnda
Lahndi hasAlternativeName Lahnda
Lahanda alternativeNameOf Lahnda
Mirpuri subclassOf Lahnda
Thali subclassOf Lahnda
Thali languageFamily Lahnda
Thali belongsTo Lahnda dialect continuum
linked to: Lahnda
Shapuri subclassOf Lahnda
Shapuri partOf Lahnda dialect continuum
linked to: Lahnda
Awankari subclassOf Lahnda