Editing Languages of Pakistan (section)

=== Hindko ===
[[File:Hindko-speakers by Pakistani District - 2017 Census.svg|thumb|150x150px|The proportion of people with [[Hindko]] as their [[First language|mother tongue]] in each Pakistani [[Districts of Pakistan|District]] as of the [[2017 Census of Pakistan|2017 Pakistan Census]]|left]]
[[Hindko]] ({{Nq|ہندکو}})is an [[Indo-Aryan language]]  group of [[Lahnda]] dialects spoken in several discontinuous areas in northwestern Pakistan, primarily in the provinces of [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] and [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]].
Hindko is mutually intelligible with [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] and [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]],{{sfn|Rahman|1996|p=211}} and has more affinities with the latter than with the former.{{sfn|Shackle|1979|pp=200–1}} Differences with other [[Punjabi varieties]] are more pronounced in the morphology and phonology than in the syntax.{{sfn|Shackle|1980|p=486}}
The word ''Hindko'', commonly used to refer to a number of Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the neighbourhood of [[Pashto]], likely originally meant "the Indian language" (in contrast to Pashto).<ref>{{harvnb|Shackle|1980|p=482}}; {{harvnb|Rensch|1992|pp=3–4}}. See there for alternative etymologies.</ref> An alternative local name for this language group is ''Hindki''.{{sfn|Rensch|1992|p=4}}{{efn|The term ''Hindki'' normally refers to a Hindko speaker and {{harvtxt|Shackle|1980|p=482}} reports that in [[Pashto]] the term has slightly pejorative connotations, which are avoided with the recently introduced term ''Hindkūn''.}}