Western Punjabi, also known as Lahnda or Lahndi, is a group of Indo-Aryan language varieties spoken in the Punjab, Hazara and Azad Kashmir regions of Pakistan.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2025 Ethnologue update, native speakers, cited to the Lahnda article since Western Punjabi is a disambiguation page pointing to it; older tables cite a lower total under the narrower Western Punjabi macrolanguage code. RegionWest Punjab, Hazara, Azad Kashmir 1 Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Lahnda
Written In
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Pakistan, located there.
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1. Wikipedia: Lahnda
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Lahnda ..., also known as Lahndi or Western Punjabi, is a group of Indo-Aryan language varieties, spoken in the Punjab, Hazara, and Azad Kashmir regions of Pakistan.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
lah
Infobox, Speakers (Native)
118 million (2025)
Infobox, Region
West Punjab, Hazara, Azad Kashmir
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Northwestern > Lahnda
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