Lahnda languages or West Panjabi dialects is a group of Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages. See also Lahnda Punjabi language - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
According to Ethnologue they comprise: Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language. ...
Seraiki is now the written language of these languages. Punjabi (sometimes spelled Panjabi) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Seraiki is a language of great antiquity in Pakistan. ...
Lahnda and Sindhi, the W. outposts of Indo-Aryan speech, have accordingly for centuries occupied a peculiarly isolated position, and have in many respects struck out common lines of independent growth.
In that language and in Lahnda the short vowel i, when preceded or followed by h, or at the end of a word, is pronounced as a short e.
In both languages the accusative case is the same as the nominative, unless special definiteness is required, when, as usual in Indo-Aryan vernaculars, the dative is employed in its place.
The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits.
Apabramsa was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century.
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