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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Saraiki language, alphabet and pronunciation</title> <meta name="description" content="Saraiki language is a Lahnda language spoken in Pakistan and northern India by about 26 million people." />  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script>  <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script></head> <body> <div id="header">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <span style="text-align:center;"><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script></span><div id="body"> <h1>Saraiki (ਸਰਾਇਕੀ / सराइकी / <span dir="rtl">سرائيكى</span>)</h1> <p>Saraiki is a member of the Western Punjabi or Lahnda branch of Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken mainly in Pakistan, particlarly in the provinces of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Punjab and Sindh. In 2017 there were about 25.9 million speakers of Saraiki in Pakistan, and there were 109,000 speakers of Saraiki in the states of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan in northern India in 2011. </p> <p>Saraiki is also known as Belochki, Seraiki or Siraiki. Dialects include Sindhi Saraiki, Central Saraiki, Eastern Saraiki, Northern Saraiki and Southern Saraiki. It is closely related to Punjabi, Sindhi, Dogri and Dhatki. </p> <p>In Pakistan Saraiki is written with a version of Perso-Arabic alphabet, while in India the Gurmukhi and Devanagari alphabets are used. It was written with the <a href="multani.htm">Multani script</a> in Punjab until the early 20th century. </p> <h2 style="text-align:right;">Perso-Arabic alphabet for Saraiki</h2> <p style="text-align:right;"><img src="../images/writing/siraiki.gif" width="593" height="1647" alt="Perso-Arabic alphabet for Saraiki" /> </p> <h2>Devanagari alphabet for Saraiki</h2> <p><img src="../images/writing/saraiki_dev.gif" width="572" height="1131" alt="Devanagari alphabet for Saraiki" /> </p> <h2>Gurmukhi alphabet for Saraiki</h2> <p><img src="../images/writing/saraiki_gur.gif" width="569" height="1028" alt="Gurmukhi alphabet for Saraiki" /> </p> <p><a href="../charts/saraiki.xls">Download alphabet charts for Saraiki</a> (Excel) </p> <p><em>Details provided by Wolfram Siegel, and Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com)</em> </p> <h2 style="text-align:right;">Sample text in Saraiki</h2> <p style="text-align:right;"><img src="../images/langsamples/smp_seraiki.gif" width="400" height="293" alt="Sample text in Saraiki" /> </p> <p style="text-align:right;"><em>Source: <a href="http://www.wasaib.com/seraiki-tay-punjabi-dhoon-zubana-aslam-rasoolpuri-12.html">http://www.wasaib.com/seraiki-tay-punjabi-dhoon-zubana-aslam-rasoolpuri-12.html</a></em> </p> <h2>Sample video in Saraiki</h2> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ozo3HCJVJEA?list=PLDsEIivsLesLkvc9To1ZDJykOK93YFRpf" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <h2>Links</h2> <p>Information about the Saraiki language and culture<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraiki_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraiki_language</a><br /> <a href="http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/western-panjabi-alphabet.html">http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/western-panjabi-alphabet.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.siraikisangat.20fr.com/">http://www.siraikisangat.20fr.com</a><br /> <a href="http://mazhar.dk/pakistan/population.htm">http://mazhar.dk/pakistan/population.htm</a><br /> <a href="http://www.punjabilok.com/misc/literature/siraiki_language_and_ Poetics.htm">http://www.punjabilok.com/misc/literature/siraiki_language_and_ Poetics.htm</a><br /> <a href="http://www.wasaib.com/">http://www.wasaib.com</a><br /> <a href="http://saraiki.wordpress.com/">http://saraiki.wordpress.com</a> </p> <h2>Indo-Aryan languages</h2> <p><a href="/writing/awadhi.htm">Awadhi</a>, <a href="/writing/assamese.htm">Assamese</a>, <a href="/writing/bagri.htm">Bagri</a>, <a href="/writing/bengali.htm">Bengali</a>, <a href="/writing/bhili.htm">Bhili</a>, <a href="/writing/bishnupriyamanipuri.htm">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a>, <a href="/writing/braj.htm">Braj</a>, <a href="/writing/chakma.htm">Chakma</a>, <a href="/writing/chhattisgarhi.htm">Chhattisgarhi</a>, <a href="/writing/chittagonian.htm">Chittagonian</a>, <a href="/writing/desiya.htm">Desiya</a>, <a 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