Pahari and Pothwari: A Sociolinguistic Survey

By: Michael and Laura Lothers

The Punjabi dialect chain in the Indo-Aryan language family includes millions of speakers in northern-Pakistan. This is one area where the sociolinguistic situation has not been investigated.

In this book the authors presented the snapshots of the Pahari-Pothwari language complex. They have addressed questions of dialect versus language and the number of dialects through synchronic, descriptive means rather than a historical, phonological comparison. They have used oral inteviews, questionnaires, word lists, comprehension testing and their own observation from the two years they lived in Murree, Pakistan.

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ISBN

Year of publication
2007

Pages
258

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