Origin of Siraiki language

Rasoolpuri   Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:43 pm GMT
Siraiki is an old language being spoken in centeral Pakistan .Fifty millions people speake this language around the world .It is supposed by senior linguists that siraiki is an indo-aryan language 'but some modern linguists suggest it and Dravidian or Munda base language .
Adam   Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:14 pm GMT
Siraiki (Urdu: سراییکی ) is a language mostly spoken in the provinces of Sindh and the Punjab in central Pakistan by about 4.5 crore people (according to 1998 census) as well as by about 20,000 people in India, and an immigrant population in the United Kingdom.

Siraiki is part of a dialect continuum with Punjabi and Sindhi, and is considered by some to be a dialect of Punjabi.

Siraiki, Punjabi and Sindhi are members of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family.

Siraiki is an independent language. It is not part or dialect of Punjabi or Sindhi.

Siraiki is written in a variant of the Arabic alphabet. Very few Siraiki speakers are literate in their own language, however, although some may be able to write other languages.

There are two writing systems for Multani / Siraiki. One is a variant of the arabic script, which is in vogue today. However, the hindus, especially the traders, wrote a script called LINDE / LINDEY / LINDAY, which was written from left to right. It is no longer used in Pakistan, but there are still people of the generation that learned the script before the partition of India, when they had to flee and settle and get assimilated in different regions and linguistic territories of India and other places of the world.

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Aslam Rasoolpuri   Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:35 pm GMT
Siraiki is not a dialect of Punjabi or Sindhi .It is an independent language .In the past some english liguists confused the people on this point .Now some punjabi writers are trying to prove siraiki is dialect of punjabi due to some political benifits but it is quite wrong