Dhani dialect

Dhani
Dhani
دھنّی
Pronunciation	[təˈni]
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Rawalpindi Division
Ethnicity	Punjabis
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern Punjabi Lahnda; (Western Punjabi) Dhani; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	dhan1272

Dhani or Dhanni (دھنّی; pronounced [ˈd̥ə˥˩n.niː])^[1] is a western dialect of the Punjabi language spoken in the southern region of the Pothohar Plateau in Punjab, Pakistan. It is predominantly spoken in the Chakwal and Talagang districts; as well as in the southern portions of Attock and Jhelum districts. Its name is derived from Dhan valley, located 35 km away from Rawalpindi.^[2] It has many subdialects including Sohāī̃ (سوہائیِں), spoken west of the Soan River, in the tehsils of Fateh Jang and Pindi Gheb in Attock District.^[1]

Classification

In the 1920s G.A. Grierson in his Linguistic Survey of India called this group North-Western Lahnda.^[1] The glotlog code for Dhani:

Grierson has distinguished three forms of Lahndi ^[4]:

Bahri, H. (1962). Lahndi Phonology, with Special Reference to Awánkárí.

Chakwal district of Punjab Province of Pakistan and neighboring districts speak this dialect.

^ ^a ^b ^c Shackle 1980, p. 484.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hasan, Wasim (2022). A Morphosyntactic Description of Dhani (Thesis). University of Management & Technology, Lahore.
^ "Glottolog 4.7 - Dhanni".
^ Bahri, Hardev (1962). Lahndi Phonology, with Special Reference to Awánkárí. Allahabad, Bharati press publications , Darbhanga road: Hardev Bahri. pp. x.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)