Khetrani language
| Khetrani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan |
Native speakers | over 100,000 (2017)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xhe |
| Glottolog | khet1238 |
Khetrani is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in northeast Balochistan province (Pakistan). About 4,000 people speak it. It is member of Lahnda group. It is related to Saraiki and to Sindhi. The literacy rate for native speakers is below 1% and below 5% for those speaking it as a second language.
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- ↑ Birmani & Ahmed (2017, pp. 4–5) estimate that it is spoken by at least 100,000 people out of an ethnic population of about 150,000. Two decades previously, Elfenbein (1994, p. 72) had estimated the number of speakers between 40,000 and 45,000.
