Hindko
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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.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Hindko
- Language.image
- Hindko.svg
- Language.imagescale
- 0.5
- Language.imagecaption
- Hindko in Shahmukhi
- Language.states
- Pakistan
- Language.region
- Hazara Division, Peshawar, Kohat, Pothohar Plateau
- Language.speakers
- 57 million
- Language.date
- 20172020
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- Indo-Aryan
- Language.fam4
- Northwestern
- Language.fam5
- Punjabi
- Language.fam6
- Lahnda
- Language.dia1
- Peshawari
- Language.dia2
- Kohati
- Language.dia3
- Awankari, Ghebi, Chacchi
- Language.dia4
- Hazara Hindko
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Hindko.svg
Show 5 more facts
- entry in abbreviations table
- ہند
- Commons category
- Hindko language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 5065879
- Wikimedia language code
- hno
- native label
- ہندکو
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Geographic distribution and dialects
- Social setting
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Nasalised vowels
- Tone
- Alphabet
- Literature
- Poetry example
- Proverbs
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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.
The name "Hindko" means "the Indian language" or "language of Hind", and refers to the Indo-Aryan speech forms spoken in the northern Indian subcontinent, in contrast to the neighbouring Pashto, an Iranic language spoken by the Pashtun people. An alternative local name for this language group is Hindki. A speaker of Hindko may be referred to as Hindki, Hindkun, or Hindkowan (Hindkuwan).