Khetrani language
| Khetrani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan |
Native speakers | 15,600 (2004)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xhe |
| Glottolog |
khet1238[3] |
Khetrānī, or Khetranki, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in north east Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh Provinces of Pakistan. It is traditionally considered a Lahnda language. However, it may be a remnant Dardic language.[4] It has been influenced by Saraiki, Balochi, and Sindhi.
| “ | The Khetrans. It is certain that the whole of the triangular block of hill now occupied by the Marris was in the possession of Indian tribes before the Baloch invasion. They were gradually destroyed or absorbed by the Baloch from the south and the Afghans from the north and such names as Shahdedja among the Marris and Haripal among the Afghans to the north indicate that fragments of these tribes remain among the Baloch and the Afghans. The Khetrans however between the Afghan and the Baloch have preserved their identity and their peculiar Indian dialect (of the Sindhi type) to the present day.[5] | ” |
Footnotes
- ↑ Khetrani at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- ↑ "Western Panjabi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Khetrani". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-521-23420-7.
- ↑ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 By M. Th. Houtsma, A. J. Wensinck page 631
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