Editing Languages of Pakistan (section)

=== Saraiki ===
[[File:Saraiki-speakers_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg|thumb|150x150px|<div style="text-align: center">The proportion of people with [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] as their [[mother tongue]] in each Pakistani [[Districts of Pakistan|District]] as of the [[2017 Pakistan Census]]</div>|left]]
[[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] ({{Nq|سرائیکی}}) is a collective term for speakers of Saraiki, an Indo Aryan language of the [[Lahnda]] group spoken in central and southeastern Pakistan, primarily in the southern part of the province of Punjab. Saraiki is to a high degree mutually intelligible with [[Standard Punjabi]]<ref>{{harvnb|Rahman|1995|p=16}}; {{harvnb|Shackle|2014b}}</ref> and is coshares with it a large portion of its vocabulary and [[Linguistic morphology|morphology]]. At the same time in [[#Phonology|its phonology]] it is radically different.{{sfn|Shackle|1977|p=389}} 

Saraiki is spoken by approximately 26 million people in [[Pakistan]], ranging across southern [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], southern [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], and border regions of northern [[Sindh]] and eastern [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saraiki |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/skr |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref>