Rangri dialect (Haryanvi)
| Rangri | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Punjab |
| Ethnicity | Ranghar (Muhajirs) |
| Arabic script (Nastaliq)[citation needed] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | hary1238 |
Rangri (also spelt Ranghri) is a dialect of the Haryanvi language spoken by Ranghar Muhajirs in Pakistani Punjab and small areas in Sindh.[1][2] It is was originally spoken in Haryana, India but is nowadays primarily spoken in Pakistan.[3] Its spoken areas include Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Khanpur, Okara, Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal, Phularwan, and Multan as well as Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar.
After the partition of India, 1.2 million Haryanvi-speaking Muslims (Muhajirs) migrated from Haryana and Delhi in India to Pakistan. Today in Pakistan, it is a mother tongue of millions of Ranghar Muslims. They live in thousands of villages in Punjab, Pakistan, and hundreds of villages in Sindh. After partition, many Uttar Pradesh Ranghars also migrated to Sindh in Pakistan and mostly settled in Karachi. Most Ranghar are now bilingual in either Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki or Sindhi. There are about 15.6 million Rangri-speaking Muslims in Pakistan.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F. (11 January 2011). Ranghar. VDM. ISBN 9786134766029.
- ^ "Punjabi Think Tank: Ranghari Speakers from Haryana". 24 June 2020.
- ^ "A Word-and-Paradigm Analysis of Pluralization of Nouns in Rangri". Archived from the original on 2023-12-01.