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| Saraiki | |
|---|---|
| ਸਰਾਇਕੀ | |
| Native to | Pakistan, India |
| Region | mainly South Punjab |
Native speakers | 17 million (2007)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Persian alphabet, Laṇḍā scripts particularly Gurumukhi, Devanagari script, Langdi script | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | skr |
The Saraiki language (Perso-Arabic: سرائیکی sometimes spelled Siraiki and Seraiki) is closely related to Punjabi. It is spoken by about 20 million Pakistanis, mostly in the southern part of Punjab Province and in adjacent parts of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwas. Saraiki belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European.
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- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007