Lahanda

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Lahanda is an alternative name for Lahnda, a group of closely related Indo-Aryan languages spoken primarily in western Pakistan.

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Lahanda canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
language group
language group
alternativeNameOf Lahnda
glottocode lahn1241
hasAlternativeName Lahnda languages
Pahari-Pothwari
surface form: Western Punjabi
hasDialect Hindko
Jatki
Khetrani
Pahari-Pothwari
Saraiki
hasISOCode lah
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
tonal contrasts in some varieties
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative alignment in past tenses
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
retroflex consonants
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
surface form: Indo-Aryan
neighboringLanguage Balochi
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Punjabi
Sindhi
region Azad Jammu and Kashmir
surface form: Azad Kashmir

Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan (Pakistan)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Punjab, Pakistan
surface form: Punjab (Pakistan)
sometimesClassifiedAs dialects of Punjabi
separate languages
spokenIn Pakistan
spokenPrimarilyIn western Pakistan
studiedInDiscipline historical linguistics
sociolinguistics
subclassOf Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
usedBy Hindko-speaking communities
Saraiki people
ethnic groups of western Punjab
writingSystem Arabic script
Shahmukhi script

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Lahnda hasAlternativeName Lahanda