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Saraiki/multan culture

Seraiki is a language of great antiquity in Pakistan. It served as ‘Lingua Franca’ among the people living around i.e. the Bloch and Sindhis, the Pashtoons and Punjabis etc. for centuries. It also remained the language of commerce and trade until recent times. Today over forty million people of Bahawalpur, D.G. Khan, Multan and Sargodha divisions of present Punjab and Dera Ismail Khan speak it as a first language. It is widely spoken and understood as a second language in Northern and Western Sind down to the suburbs of Karachi and in Kachhi plain of Baluchistan.www.seraikistan.org

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Uploaded on November 29, 2005
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