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.
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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. StatusWikipedia article on Western Punjabi: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionWest Punjab, Hazara, Azad Kashmir 2 Classification
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The Punjabis (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Gurmukhi) / پنجابی (Shahmukhi), romanized: Pañjābī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group associated with the Punjab region, comprising areas of northwestern India and eastern Pakistan, who generally speak any of the several Punjabi dialects.
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Lahnda (Punjabi: Laehndā, pronounced [lɛ˦n.d̪äː], lit. 'western'), 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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Lahnda (Punjabi: Laehndā, pronounced [lɛ˦n.d̪äː], lit. 'western'), 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. Glottolog: Punjabi, Western
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Punjabi, Western (pnb-pnb) = 5 (Developing).
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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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Lahnda (Punjabi: Laehndā, pronounced [lɛ˦n.d̪äː], lit. 'western'), 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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