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Wikipedia: Sarāikī (Perso-Arabic: سرائیکی, Gurmukhi: ਸਰਾਇਕੀ, Devanagari: सराइकी), sometimes spelled Siraiki and Seraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages. Sarāikī is based on a group of vernacular, historically unwritten dialects spoken by over 14 million people across the southern more than half of Punjab Province, the adjacent border region of Sindh Province, and the northwest of Punjab Province, southern districts of Dera Ismail Khan and Tank of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province as well as by nearly 70,000 emigrants and their descendants in India. The development of the standard written language, a process which began after the founding of Pakistan in 1947, has been driven by a regionalist political movement.
![[Rahat Multani singing in Urdu and Saraiki, at National Art Gallery, Islamabad]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Rahat_at_National_Art_Gallery_Islamabad_s.jpg "Rahat Multani singing in Urdu and Saraiki, at National Art Gallery, Islamabad")
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