Saraiki
| Saraiki | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Pakistan , India , Afghanistan | |
| speaker | 20 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
skr |
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Saraiki ( Arabic : سرائیکی/ Gurmukhi :ਸਰਾਇਕੀ), sometimes also written Siraiki, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 20 million people in Pakistan, India and partly in Afghanistan. It forms a dialect continuum with Sindhi and Punjabi , which have taken many words from Saraiki.
Saraiki has 16 vowels and 48 consonants.
Saraiki is written both with a modified Perso-Arabic alphabet and in the Gurmukhi script , but most Saraiki speakers can neither read nor write their language.
