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In 1920’s Grierson in his Linguist Survey of India classified Lahnda (Western Punjabi) as separate language from Eastern Punjabi on same basis as he did with Western and Eastern hindi[1] but to date local people has rejected through national census [2] of Pakistan separate identity from Standard Punjabi. Following table is showing the demographics by mother tongue of those districts of Pakistan which according to Grierson were Lahnda speaking areas. It can be seen from the table that only 29.68 % of these district’s population opted Lahnda’s dialects (Saraiki, Hindko and Potowari) as their mother tongue and remaining 70.32 % population opted Punjabi as their mother tongue [3]. Even 29.68 % is only because of Non Native people living in Punjab i.e. Baloch, Pashtun, Arabic, Kashmiris and Iranian ethnic settlers living in southern Punjab & DI khan and Hazara divisions of KPK province who failed to integrate in to local Greater Punjab culture and want to create some separate identity due to political agendas examples are regionalist political movement and Hazara Province Movement.

These fact strongly prove the claim of Local linguists that Lahnda and its dialects (Saraiki, Hindko and Pahari/Potowari) are not separate languages but dialects of Punjabi because these are mutually intangible, morphologically and syntactically similar with Standard Punjabi and are in fact dialects of Standard Punjabi agreed by majority of local linguists such as Dulai, K Narinder, Gill, Harjeet Singh Gill, A Henry. Gleason (Jr), Koul, N Omkar, Siya Madhu Bala, Afzal Ahmed Cheema, Aamir Malik, Amar Nath [4] [5] [6] [7] as well as modern linguistics publications such as US National advisory Committee based The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) along with modern linguistics such as Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, Cardona and Nataliia Ivanovna Tolstaia classifing Saraiki as a dialect of Punjabi.[8] [9] [10] [11] Today like all other dialects in Punjab, a process of unification and getting closer to Standard Pakistani Punjabi (Urdu influenced Majhi written in Shahmukhi), has bridged the gap further between eastern and western Punjabi.

District Population % Opted Punjabi % Opted Saraiki/Hindko/Pahari-Potwari
Vehari 2,090,000 88.6 11.4
Khanewal 2,068,000 88.4 11.6
Multan 3,116,000 39.3 60.6
Lodhran 1,171,000 30.4 69.6
Bahawal Nagar 2,062,000 96.9 3.1
Bahawalpur 2,433,000 35.7 64.3
Rahim yar khan 3,141,000 37.4 62.6
Mianwali 1,056,000 88.0 12.0
Khaushab 950,712 92.2 7.8
Sargodha 2,666,000 99.99 0.01
Bhakar 1,051,000 27.0 73.0
Okara 2,233,000 99.99 0.01
Sahiwal 1,843,000 99.99 0.01
Pakpattan 1,287,000 99.2 0.8
DG Khan 1,643,000 19.7 80.3
Rajanpur 1,103,000 24.2 75.8
Muzaffar Garh 2,635,000 13.7 86.3
Layyah 1,122,000 37.7 62.3
Chakwal 1,083,000 99.8 0.2
Rawalpindi 3,363,000 95.0 5.0
Jehlam 936,957 99.0 1.0
Attock 1,274,935 98.0 2.0
Hafizabad 832,000 99.99 0.01
Mandi Bahauddin 1,161,000 99.99 0.01
Chaniot 965,000 99.2 0.8
Toba Tek Singh 905,580 99.99 0.01
Jhang 2,834,000 98.2 0.8
Faisalabad 5,429,547 99.5 0.5
Abbottabad 880,666 8.0 92.0
Mansehra 1,152,839 3.0 97.0
Haripur 692,228 8.0 92.0
D I Khan 852,995 9.0 91.0
Tank 238,216 3.0 97.0
Total 56,267,000 70.32 29.68

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  1. ^ Grierson 1920: Linguist Survey of India: New Delhi
  2. ^ http://www.census.gov.pk/publications.php
  3. ^ District Census Statistics: Statistics division of Pakistan: Islamabad
  4. ^ Dulai, Narinder K. 1989. A Pedagogical Grammar of Punjabi. Patiala: Indian Institute of Language Studies.
  5. ^ Gill, Harjeet Singh Gill and Henry A. Gleason, Jr: A Reference Grammar of Punjabi: Patiala University Press
  6. ^ Koul, Omkar N. and Madhu Bala :Punjabi Language and Linguistics: An Annotated Bibliography: New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies
  7. ^ Malik, Amar Nath, Afzal Ahmed Cheema : 1995 : The Phonology and Morphology of Panjabi: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
  8. ^ http://books.google.fr/books?id=C9MPCd6mO6sC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
  9. ^ http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=95&menu=004
  10. ^ Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow:2012:Punjabi Dialects:Beta script publishing:6134873527, 9786134873529
  11. ^ http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=BmA9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false