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Saraiki dialect
Saraiki
(
Shahmukhi
: ), is the southern dialect of
Western Punjabi
of the
Indo-Aryan
language family. It is spoken by 20 million people (2013) across the
South Punjab
, southern
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
, and border regions of North
Sindh
and Eastern
Balochistan
, with some 70,000 migrants and their descendants in
India
, who migrated as a result of the
partition of British India
, as well as overseas, especially in the
Middle East
. Saraiki is also spoken by some
Hindus
in
Afghanistan
, though the number there is unknown.
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