A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko Panjabi and Saraiki - Elena Bashir Thomas J Conners Kartoniert (TB)

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 orthogra phy 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.