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Old Oct 11th, 2008, 09:18 AM   #129 (permalink)  
abdelyuuki
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Originally Posted by thejoke View Post
Siraiki is not a Punjabi variant and there is no way in the world that only 9% of Pakistan speak Seraiki.
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Siraiki is a Punjabi variant, as concluded by linguistic scholars. It is also known as 'Southern Punjabi'. It comes under West Punjabi dialects (Lahnda) which include :

* Northern Hindko
* Southern Hindko
* Jakati
* Khetrani
* Mirpur Punjabi
* Siraiki

And it is only 8.15% of Pakistan that speaks Siraiki : ¨13,843,106 in Pakistan (2000 WCD). Population total all countries: 13,863,106.¨

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=skr







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