Northern Hindko Hazari Panjabi | |
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اتَرُی ہنَدْکوَ, ਹਾਜ਼ਰੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ | |
Native to | Pakistan |
Region | Hazara Division, Peshawar, Kohat, Abbottabad |
Ethnicity | Hindkowan Panjabi |
Native speakers | 5 million[1] (2022) |
Indo-European
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Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi (original) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | hnpb – Hazari Panjabi |
Glottolog | hind1271 |
The proportion of people with Hindko Panjabi as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census |
Northern Hindko or Hazari Panjabi is a dialect of Hindko spoken in the Hazara Division. It is the most spoken variety of Hindko dialect of Panjabi.[2]