Languages

Western Punjabi

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Western Punjabi." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/western-punjabi.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Western Punjabi. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/western-punjabi

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-western-punjabi,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Western Punjabi},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/western-punjabi},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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

lah 1

Speaker Count

118,000,000 1

2025 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.

Region

West Punjab, Hazara, Azad Kashmir 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Indo-European

Source Wikipedia: Lahnda

Sources

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.

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1. Wikipedia: Lahnda

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