Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages

Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan

thumb|A Hindko speaker. Hindko (, romanised: , ) is a cover term for a diverse group of Lahnda dialects spoken by several million people of various ethnic backgrounds in several areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northwestern regions of Punjab.

Lahnda (, , ), also known as Lahndi or Western Punjabi, is a group of Punjabi language varieties within the north-western branch of the Indo-Aryan language family, spoken in the Punjab, Hazara, and Azad Kashmir regions of Pakistan. It is defined in the ISO 639 standard as a "macrolanguage" or as a "series of dialects" by other authors. Its validity as a linguistic genetic grouping is not certain. The terms "Lahnda" and "Western Punjabi" are exonyms employed by linguists, and are not used by the speakers themselves, who refer to their respective dialects or simply the language "Punjabi".

Punjabi dialect

language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Balochistan