#seraiki

"Inku is an Indo-Aryan language spoken, at least historically, throughout Afghanistan by four of the country's nomadic communities: the Jalali, the Pikraj, the Shadibaz and the Vangawala.

Each of the four groups speaks a variety with slight differences compared to the others. According to their local tradition, their ancestors migrated in the 19th century from the Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan regions of present-day Pakistan. Such an origin suggests that Inku may be related to the Saraiki language spoken there, though nothing is conclusively known.

The total population of the four Inku-speaking groups was estimated to be 7,000 as of the end of the 1970s. There is no reliable information about their present state, though it is unlikely that many have survived the subsequent upheavals in the country, and according to the entry in Ethnologue, which however may not necessarily refer to this language, the last speakers "probably survived into the 1990s".

Linguistic materials about the varieties spoken by the Shadibaz, Vangawala and Pikraj were collected by Aparna Rao in the 1970s, but they have not been published or analysed yet.

The following is an extract of a text narrated in 1978 by a man of the Chenarkhel subgroup of the Vangawala:

تو ڈیوا بال کے رکھ چا، ہوا جانے ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ خدا جانے

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خزاں دا خوف تاں مالی کوں بزدل کر نہیں سگدا

چمن آباد رکھ ، بادِ صبا جانے ۔۔۔۔۔۔ خدا جانے

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مریضِ عشق خود کو کر، دوا دل دی سمجھ دلبر

مرض جانے ، دوا جانے ، شفا جانے ، خدا جانے

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جے مَر کے زندگی چہندیں ، فقیری ٹوٹکا سُن گھِن

وفا دے وچ فنا تھی ونج ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ بقا جانے خُدا جانے

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اے پوری تھیوے نہ تھیوے۔۔ مگر بیکار نئیں ویندی

دُعا شاکر توُں منگی رکھ ، دُعا جانے ، خُدا جانے

All three of them are related and they do have a sibling dynamic, with Sindhu being the oldest of all the Indics. However even though all of them are siblings, they also had separate Kingdoms. Now what is that one thing all neighboring Kingdoms do? FIGHT! and a whole lot of it too. They did too.

For centuries they’ve fought to gain control of more and more land but now that they are a part of a federation, their rivalries are more limited to the political scene. Seraiki has good relations with both Northern Punjab and Sindh now, but she wants to be a province of her own rather than being under N.punjab all the time.

I just wanted you to know that this blog is mainly for Pakistan. I just created the provinces for further shugal but again , the main focus is on Pakistan so i do not think i will be personifying all those princely states or going too deep into them. When i want Pakistanis to view this blog , i want them to get more attached to Umer or Pakistan as a whole country instead of pledging allegiance to their own respective provinces XD. As for Azad Kashmir , Islamabad and Gilgit Baltistan , you’ll get to see them eventually , i’ll reblog them along with this post. Also i will be doing Kalasha too because i want to lol

As for the twin thingy , well for Balochistan , no i won’t put them as twins , i didn’t really think much into the Sistan province  of Iran, but the biography of Balochistan is pretty diverse so he isn’t the twin of Sistan. They are related (obviously). I made Makran because he was pretty distinct from the Iranic Balochis and needed his own personification.

For Punjab , again , he isn’t the twin of Indian Punjab. The Punjabi identity isn’t based on ethnicity , but is much more based on culture and language. So basically if anyone lives in Punjab and has embraced its culture and language , they can be called Punjabis. In Pakistan , i have divided the Pakistani Punjab into two separate personifications , Northern Punjab , which includes all those cities next to Kashmir , the pahari-potowar plateau and north western areas of Punjab including Rawalpindi , Jhelum etc. and South Punjab , also known as Seraiki , because they have their own culture, Southern punjab includes Multan ,Bhawalpur , Toba Tek Singh  etc etc. However , Northern Punjab holds more influence and power than southern Punjab , so i put Northern Punjab to represent Punjab most of the time. (even though that is starting to change slowly but gradually) (also don’t worry , northern Punjab is mostly a comic relief-type of character) So no , Pakistani Punjab looks different from Indian Punjab/Himachel Pradesh (Himachel would look a bit more tibetan-punjabi mix in my opinion).

As for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan regions , Gilgit Baltistan is an entity of its own. As for Azad Kashmir , yeah , shares heritage with the Kashmir Valley. ( I still need to work a bit more on this i guess-? but just for fun , Kashmir banega Pakistan :p)

 They can be threaded as related but overall they look different (not THAT drastically) but not as similarly as twins. If you have any designs i would love to see them :D 

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