Northern Hindko

Northern Hindko Hazari Panjabi
اتری ہندکو‎, ਹਾਜ਼ਰੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Hazara Division, Peshawar, Kohat, Abbottabad
Ethnicity	Hindkowan Panjabi
Native speakers	5 million[1] (2022)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Panjabi language Western Panjabi Hindko Panjabi Northern Hindko Hazari Panjabi
Writing system	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]

References

1. "The strange and little-known case of Hindko". 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
2. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/download/11017/9907/21751