Awankari dialect

Awankari
Awankari
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern Punjabic Lahnda (Western Punjabi) Hindko Awankari; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	avan1234
	Awankari
	Coordinates: 32.91°N 72.17°E

Awankari (Avāṅkārī, Awankari pronunciation: [ɑʋɑŋkɑri]) is a Punjabi dialect of Pakistan. Classified as a dialect of Lahnda (Western Punjabi), it is spoken mostly in parts of Chakwal District in the north-west of the province of Punjab.

The rest of this article is based entirely on Hardev Bahri's work of the 1930s. It is possible that the geographic extent, the division into subdialects, and the linguistic characteristics might have changed since then.

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