Northern Hindko

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Northern Hindko
Hazari Panjabi
اتری ہندکو, ਹਾਜ਼ਰੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Native toPakistan
RegionHazara Division, Peshawar, Kohat, Abbottabad
EthnicityHindkowan Panjabi
Native speakers
5 million[1] (2022)
Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi (original)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
hnpb – Hazari Panjabi
Glottologhind1271
The proportion of people with Hindko Panjabi as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census

Northern Hindko or Hazari Panjabi is a dialect of Hindko spoken in the Hazara Division. It is the most spoken variety of Hindko dialect of Panjabi.[2]

References[change | change source]

  1. "The strange and little-known case of Hindko". 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/download/11017/9907/21751