What is Hindko?
Sayra, you seriously need a good crash course in Punjabi before they declare you something else. As they say best way to learn a language is in bed...take a good Punjabi learning book, sit tight in bed and study it thoroughly.
then you can say properly...Lahore Lahore ee ay.
Sarah, I'm like an open book. You can read me all that you want.
I hope you are not like a typical Punjabi book - not very often read by lot of people.
Sarah: don't believe everything you read.
well, hindko is an old and important language spoken in parts of Northern Pakistan .. there are various dialects of this indo-aryan language.... getting into details ..Hindko is divided into two sub groups .. Northern and Southern Hindko .. and there are good number of hindko speaking people in Kashmir, Hazara Division, Mansehra, Abbotabad, Kohat, Peshawar, Attock, haripur, Indus and Kaghan valleys and valleys of Indus tributaries .. btw, the dialect in Dera Ismail Khan ... also sometimes called Hindko which is apparently closer to Saraiki .. there is another language known as Potohari ..the area where Potohari is spoken extends in the north from Kashmir to as far south as Jehlum and Gujar Khan and includes my place as well .. I mean the capital of Pakistan .. Islamabad .. this dialect is similar to some extent to the Hindko dialect of Punjabi which is spoken in Peshawar, Nowshehra, Mansehra all these areas lie in the NWFP where majority language is Pashto, but Hindko speakers area also found in sizable numbers .. so don't worry if someone is calling you Hindkan :~) cuz, usually when these massive numbers of language vernacular mix up together .. they create misunderstandings .. :~)
I am like an Open Book Except for the few pages of my past, My life is an empty book. It takes the shape of a mystery, To me it does at least. For I cannot tell what happens next, Too many cliffhangers and too much suspense. But its clues all lead eventually to the same place, Unfortunately it does not say where. It only says get the next book, For in this one you' ve ran out of room.
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Originally posted by Azam#1:
**well, hindko is an old and important language spoken in parts of Northern Pakistan .. there are various dialects of this indo-aryan language.... getting into details ..Hindko is divided into two sub groups .. Northern and Southern Hindko .. and there are good number of hindko speaking people in Kashmir, Hazara Division, Mansehra, Abbotabad, Kohat, Peshawar, Attock, haripur, Indus and Kaghan valleys and valleys of Indus tributaries .. btw, the dialect in Dera Ismail Khan ... also sometimes called Hindko which is apparently closer to Saraiki .. there is another language known as Potohari ..the area where Potohari is spoken extends in the north from Kashmir to as far south as Jehlum and Gujar Khan and includes my place as well .. I mean the capital of Pakistan .. Islamabad .. this dialect is similar to some extent to the Hindko dialect of Punjabi which is spoken in Peshawar, Nowshehra, Mansehra all these areas lie in the NWFP where majority language is Pashto, but Hindko speakers area also found in sizable numbers .. so don't worry if someone is calling you Hindkan :~) cuz, usually when these massive numbers of language vernacular mix up together .. they create misunderstandings .. :~)
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OMG! And I didn't even know there is such a thing as Hindko...
I don't have an attitude...I don't need one!!
Take some rest close that book.
Well to my knowledge zaban-e-hindko is quite ancient and gets its name from the mountain in afghanistan which was called by Greek Herodotus the "canopy of the world" and "Caucusus Indukos" from which the word hindukush mountain is derived. It is the second dominant language of NWFP after pashto followed by khowari and sheena. The region of NWFP has the Highest linguistic density in the whole world.
It is beleived to be an older language of GAndhara region (The Most imnporatnt region perhaps in the entire western Asia). formulated primarliy during the Kushan era. KUshans themselves were more Iranian (eastern Iranian) in their original speech (similar to small pockets of which languages like ormori, parachi & yidghae still survive) and by carving out an empire and adopting budhism they came under the sanskrit influence which itself was the language of the elite in the eastern most city of Gandhara i:e Taxilla in potohar region. After the collapse of the kushans due to several reasons the way was thence paved for the dominance for pashto (Eastern Iranian) languge. All most all hindko speakers are bilingual and are proficient in both pashto and hindko and also urdu. Same goes for most speakers of other languages such as khowar and chitral. Today most hindko speakers are urban than tribal. But many still retain tribal structures like most of the pashto speakers such as mervat, khowaskhel, verdak (afghans settled in pashawar) as well as by some bannuchi in bannu etc...
My family itself is trilingual using primarily pashto, and hindko and dari (for business).
Going by the people drooling over Sarah the Splendour (i dunno of What splendour she/he is
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Hindko must be a very pornographic language
Gymnasophyst that was a higly ignorant remark what makes you think that language deserves to be classified as that
kitab ki jild phatti hui lagti hai
I recently read a very good book called ENVY: A theory of social behaviour by Helmut Schoek. It is one of the most honest a hard hitting books written by a conservative writer.
Lily
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In case you forget to buy some sense of Humour in your next trip to the grocers or the Mall,that was a pun on Sarah Splendour who has quiet a reputation here ,in case you did not know (or are you HER)
I have nothing against ANY language including Hindko …may i some day SERENADFE(moon) you in Hindko .
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Lily i even like your name …One of her first name is LILY too
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Wohi Hota Hai Jo Munzoore Khuda Hota Hai …:nahnah: