Awankari | |
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Native to | Pakistan |
Region | Punjab |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | avan1234 |
Coordinates: 32°55′N 72°10′E / 32.91°N 72.17°E |
Awankari (Avāṅkārī, Awankari pronunciation: [ɑʋɑŋkɑri]) is an Indo-Aryan dialect of Pakistan. Classified as a dialect of Hindko, 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.