Saraiki dialect

Spoken in

  • Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Indo-Aryan languages North West Group Lahnda

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Saraiki (Arabic: سرائیکی / Gurmukhi: ਸਰਾਇਕੀ ), sometimes spelled Siraiki, is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by 13.8 million people in Pakistan, India, and partly also in Afghanistan. It forms a dialect continuum with the Sindhi and Punjabi, which have adopted many words from the Saraiki.

Saraiki has 16 vowels and 48 consonants.

Saraiki is written with both a modified persoarabischen alphabet and in the Gurmukhi script, but most Saraiki - speakers can not read or write their language.

Language family Gurmukhī alphabet Sindhi language Persian alphabet
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