Editing Saraiki language (section)

===India===
After [[Partition of India|Partition]] in 1947, Hindu and Sikh speakers of Saraiki migrated to India, where they are currently widely dispersed, though with more significant pockets in the states of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[Haryana]], [[Rajasthan]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Delhi]] and [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].{{sfn|Goswami|1994|p=30}} There is also a smaller group of Muslim [[Pastoralist nomads|pastoralists]] who migrated to India, specifically [[Andhra Pradesh]], prior to Partition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kahan se aa gai ({{Nastaliq|کہاں سے کہاں آ گئے}})|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/india/2009/05/090505_wusat_multan_pkg.shtml|access-date=8 April 2012|archive-date=22 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922000201/http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/india/2009/05/090505_wusat_multan_pkg.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There are census figures available – for example, in the 2011 census, {{sigfig|29253|2}} people reported their language as "[[Bahawalpuri dialect|Bahawal Puri]]", and {{sigfig|61722|2}} as "Hindi Multani".<ref>{{cite web|title = 2011 Census tables: C-16, population by Native languages|website = Census of India Website|url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191210063438/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html| archive-date = 10 December 2019}}</ref> However, these are not representative of the actual numbers, as the speakers will often refer to their language using narrower dialect or regional labels, or alternatively identify with the bigger language communities, like those of Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu. Therefore, the number of speakers in India remains unknown.<ref>{{harvnb|Goswami|1994|pp=30–31}}; {{harvnb|Bhatia|2016|pp=134–35}}.</ref> There have been observations of Lahnda varieties "merging" into Punjabi (especially in Punjab and Delhi), as well as of outright [[language shift|shift]] to the dominant languages of Punjabi or Hindi.{{sfn|Goswami|1994|pp=31, 33}} One pattern reported in the 1990s was for members of the younger generation to speak the respective "Lahnda" variety with their grandparents, while communicating within the peer group in Punjabi and speaking to their children in Hindi.{{sfn|Goswami|1994|pp=32–33}}