Rangri dialect (Haryanvi)
| Rangri | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Punjab |
| Ethnicity | Ranghar (Muhajirs) |
| Arabic script (Nastaliq)[citation needed] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | hary1238 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Rangri (also spelt Ranghri) is a dialect of the Haryanvi language spoken by Ranghar Muhajirs in Pakistani Punjab and small areas in Sindh.[1][2] It is was originally spoken in Haryana, India but is nowadays primarily spoken in Pakistan.[3] Its spoken areas include Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Khanpur, Okara, Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal, Phularwan, and Multan as well as Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar.
Demographics
[edit | edit source]After the partition of India, 1.2 million Haryanvi-speaking Muslims (Muhajirs) migrated from Haryana and Delhi in India to Pakistan. Today in Pakistan, it is a mother tongue of millions of Ranghar Muslims. They live in thousands of villages in Punjab, Pakistan, and hundreds of villages in Sindh. After partition, many Uttar Pradesh Ranghars also migrated to Sindh in Pakistan and mostly settled in Karachi.
Most Ranghar are now bilingual in either Urdu, Punjabi or Sindhi but due to state negligence as well cultural assimilation in Punjab and Sindh fewer speak the language with each passing generation, and it's estimated that slightly more than 500,000 may be the real number of Rangri speakers.[4]
References
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- ^ Nawaz, Hafiz Imran, Hassin ur Rehman, Nasir Khan, and Muhammad Sarfraz Rao. “Declining of Rangri Language: A Case Study in Karachi.” Journal of Applied Linguistics and TESOL (JALT), vol. 7, no. 4, 2024. ResearchGate. Accessed 5 July 2025.