Saraiki, also spelt Siraiki, is an Indo-Aryan language of south-western Punjab province in Pakistan, centred on the cities of Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan. Its status has long been argued over: older classifications treated it as a dialect of Punjabi, but it is now generally described as a distinct language, closely related to both Punjabi and Sindhi, and Pakistan's census counts it separately. The 2017 census recorded roughly 26 million speakers. Saraiki is written in the Perso-Arabic script with extra letters for sounds Punjabi lacks, including a set of implosive consonants it shares with Sindhi. There is a lively tradition of Saraiki poetry and song, and campaigners continue to press for a separate Saraiki province.
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