Saraiki language | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-17

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Saraiki language


00:00:59 1 Name
00:02:13 2 Classification and related languages
00:03:30 2.1 Dialects
00:05:55 2.2 Status of language or dialect
00:06:54 3 Geographical distribution
00:07:33 3.1 Pakistan
00:08:25 3.2 India
00:09:36 4 Phonology
00:10:04 4.1 Vowels
00:10:40 4.2 Consonants
00:12:57 4.3 Phonotactics and stress
00:14:11 4.4 Implosives
00:17:00 5 Writing system
00:18:07 6 Language use
00:18:17 6.1 In academia
00:19:01 6.2 Arts and literature
00:20:01 6.3 Media
00:20:09 6.3.1 Television channels
00:20:38 6.3.2 Radio
00:20:52 7 See also



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Saraiki (سرائیکی ‬ Sarā'īkī, also spelt Siraiki, or  Seraiki) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda (Western Punjabi) group, spoken in the south-western half of the province of Punjab in Pakistan. Saraiki is to a high degree mutually intelligible with Standard Punjabi and shares with it a large portion of its vocabulary and morphology. At the same time in its phonology it is radically different (particularly in the lack of tones, the preservation of the voiced aspirates and the development of implosive consonants), and has important grammatical features in common with the Sindhi language spoken to the south.Saraiki is the first language of 20 million people in Pakistan, ranging across southern Punjab, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and border regions of northern Sindh and eastern Balochistan.

The Saraiki language identity arose in the 1960s, encompassing more narrow local earlier identities (like Multani or Riasti), and distinguishing itself from broader ones like that of Punjabi.