Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda group. It is spoken by 28.84 million people, as per the 2023 Pakistani census, mostly in southern Punjab, northern Sindh and southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ashu Lal, A Saraiki poet and intellectual
Saraiki as a first, second, and third largest mother tongue by district in Pakistan.
Tomb of Sufi poet Khwaja Ghulam Farid
The Punjabi language has a variety of dialects which form a dialect continuum and are primarily subdivided into two groups: Eastern Punjabi in the east, and Lahnda in the west. The dialects vary based
Saraiki language
…one, and any distinction made using these terms is obscured by their ambiguity. In a sense both Saraiki and Standard Panjabi are "dialects" of a "Greater Punjabi" macrolanguage. The term "Saraiki" was first introduced for the Multani, Riasti and Derawali dialects of this "Greater Punjabi" macrolanguage in the…
Poster claiming to depict dialects of Punjabi, displayed at Sadda Pind, Amritsar, Punjab, India