page_title: Puadhi dialect
section_title: Vocabulary
hierarchical_section_title: Puadhi dialect / Vocabulary
caption_attribution_description: English: This map shows the Puadh region of north India.
context_page_description: Puadhi is a dialect of Punjabi primarily spoken in the Puadh region of northern India. It is spoken between the Sutlej and Ghaggar river basins in the present day states of Punjab and Haryana, and the union territory of Chandigarh.
  Puadh extends from Rupnagar near Satluj up to the Ghaggar river and its tributaries, Markanda and Som in the east, which lie in northern Haryana up to Kala Amb in Nahan district of Himachal Pradesh.
  To the west it extends into the Puadh tract of Ludhiana where the westernmost spoken varieties of the Puadhi dialect form a continuum with Malwai. Puadhi's western boundary also extends into Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala districts and its influence is observed in the southwest in the adjacent areas of Kaithal and Kurukshetra districts up to northern areas of Jind distinct such as Ujhana and Dhamtan Sahib and its westernmost boundary extends into parts of Fatehabad district of Haryana.
  The language is spoken over a large area in present Punjab as well as Haryana.
context_section_description: The Puadhi dialect has many words that differ from other dialects of Punjabi.
caption: The Puadhi language is spoken across the region shown in green.
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