Northern Hindko

grouping of Hindko dialects associated with regions east and north of Peshawar

Northern Hindko or Hazari Panjabi is a dialect of Hindko spoken in the Hazara Division. It is the most spoken variety of Hindko dialect of Panjabi.[2]

Northern Hindko
Hazari Panjabi
اتری ہندکو, ਹਾਜ਼ਰੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Native toPakistan
RegionHazara Division, Peshawar, Kohat, Abbottabad
EthnicityHindkowan Panjabi
Native speakers
5 million[1] (2022)
Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi (original)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
hnpb – Hazari Panjabi
Glottologhind1271
The proportion of people with Hindko Panjabi as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census

References change

  1. "The strange and little-known case of Hindko". 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/download/11017/9907/21751