Social:Rangri dialect (Haryanvi)

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Short description: Dialect of the Haryanvi language
Rangri
رنگھری
RangriHaryanvi.svg
Native toPakistan
RegionPunjab
EthnicityRanghar (Muhajirs)
Arabic script[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologhary1238[1]

Rangri (also spelt Ranghri) is a dialect of the Haryanvi language[2] spoken by Ranghar Muhajirs in Pakistani Punjab and small areas in Sindh.[3] It used to be spoken in Haryana in India, but nowadays it is only spoken in Pakistan.[4] It is spoken primarily in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Khanpur, Okara, Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal, Phularwan, and Multan as well as Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Haryanvi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hary1238. 
  2. Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F. (11 January 2011). Ranghar. VDM. ISBN 9786134766029. https://books.google.com/books?id=tGhWYgEACAAJ. 
  3. "Punjabi Think Tank: Ranghari Speakers from Haryana". 24 June 2020. http://pthinker.blogspot.com/2020/06/ranghari-speakers-from-haryana.html. 
  4. https://kjlr.pk/index.php/kjlr/article/download/148/86 [bare URL]