Hindko Panjabi and Saraiki are three closely related geographically contiguous languages of
Pakistan. Together they are the native language of some 125 million people. Panjabi alone
ranks among the 15 most widely spoken languages in the world. The Grammar of Hindko Panjabi
and Saraiki provides a comparative description of these three language varieties focusing
where possible on the variety of Hindko spoken in Abbottabad the Panjabi spoken in Lahore
and the Saraiki spoken in Multan. Based on both fieldwork and corpus research the grammar
provides coverage of the phonology orthography morphology and syntax of the language with
extensive exemplification presented in the native Perso-Arabic script along with standard Roman
representations and morphological analysis. Written in an accessible style from a basic
linguistic theory perspective this work will be of use to linguistic researchers language
scholars and students of the languages of Pakistan and South Asia.
