Everything about Siraiki totally explained
Saraiki (
Perso-Arabic: سراییکی,
Gurmukhi: ਸਰਾਇਕੀ), also called
Multani (
Perso-Arabic: ملتانی,
Gurmukhi: ਮੁਲਤਾਨੀ,
Devanagari: मुल्तानी), is an
Indo-Aryan (Indic)
language mostly spoken in Southern
Punjab and northern
Sindh in central
Pakistan by about 30 million people (according to 1998 census) as well as by about 506,096 people in
India, and by a small minority in
Afghanistan.
Classification
Saraiki is part of a
dialect continuum with
Punjabi and
Sindhi. Saraiki, Punjabi and Sindhi are members of the
Indo-Aryan branch of the
Indo-European family.
sindhi language is a dialect of seraiki and many words are derived from seraiki as Seraiki is much older.
Geographic distribution
Saraiki is widely spoken and understood as a second language in northern and western
Sindh down to the suburbs of
Karachi and in the
Kachhi plain of
Balochistan. It is also known as
Derawali in
Derajat area. Saraiki is also spoken in
North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and it's third popular language after
Pashtu and
Punjabi. Saraiki is widely spoken in southern NWFP areas specially in
Dera Ismail Khan,
Kulachi and in
Tank District and also spoken widely in
Lakki Marwat. It is mostly spoken in the south of
Punjab in
Dera Ghazi Khan,
Multan,
Mailsi,
Mianwali,
Vehari,
Rahim Yar Khan,
Rajan Pur and
Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
In
India, it's known as Multani and is spoken by the Multanis who settled mostly in the urban areas of the states of
Punjab,
Haryana,
Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh,
Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan,
Delhi, and
Gujarat after the
partition of India in 1947. Their population in mainly concentrated in Delhi and in the towns of
Haryana, such as Rohtak, Kaithal, Jind, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Fatehabad and Hissar.
Phonology
Vowels
Saraiki has three short vowels, seven long vowels and six nasal vowels.
Consonants
Writing system
There are two writing systems for Multani / Saraiki. One is a variant of the
Arabic script, which is in vogue today. Very few Saraiki speakers are
literate in their own language, however, although some may be able to write other languages.
However, the
Hindus, especially the traders, wrote a script called
Lahnda, which was written from left to right. It is no longer used in present-day Pakistan, but there are still people of the generation that learned the script before the
partition of India, when they'd to flee, settle, and assimilate in different regions and linguistic territories of
India and other places of the world. Some Indian Multanis also write in the
Devanagari script.
Further Information
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