How mutually intelligible are Pakistan's languages...

[shaykh1985]

The title tells it all really...

My Urdu is so so...was wondering how or of other languages in Pakistan were mutually intelligible with Urdu or with each other...so Balochi, Urdu, Pashto, Seraiki, Sindhi, Panjabi...how similar are they?...

 

[Looney]

Punjabi + Sindhi = Seraiki
Punjabi + Pashto = Hindko

Urdu is more similar to Farsi , Arabic , Turkish but after partition , You will get a different taste of Urdu wherever you go in PAkistan

 

[shaykh1985]

Thanks for that...nice to know there are some similarities...

Is Balochi completely different from the rest?...

 

[FastBowler]

More or less. The Baloch are quite separate from the rest anyways.
Which language are you strong at?

 

[shaykh1985]

More or less. The Baloch are quite separate from the rest anyways.
Which language are you strong at?

I wouldnt say Im strong at but I speak Urdu reasonably well...

 

[TAK]

Punjabi + Pashto = Hindko

how accurate is that?


are there pushto words in hindko

i have always thought of hindko as a dilaect of punjabi

 

[MIG]

As an urdu speaker, I find it very easy to make sense of spoken Punjabi.

I really dont understand URDU speaking people when they think Punjabi is some version of Greek !

 

[ShehryarK]

i have always thought of hindko as a dilaect of punjabi

It certainly sounds like it - is very close to Photohari.

 

[Prince_Pathan]

how accurate is that?


are there pushto words in hindko

i have always thought of hindko as a dilaect of punjabi

no there isnt...i understand my mums side when they speak but cant speak it myself...there are barely any pashto words

its just a diff dialect of punjabi lol

 

[Free Hit]

Urdu = no swears
Punjabi= All the swear that you can think of

 

[AZ]

Punjabi, one can pick up quite easily.

Sindhi, Balochi are very difficult, can't make sense of them at all.

dunno what Saraiki, Hindko, Potohari sound like, so not sure.

and of course Pushto, well, we can all understand that, can't we

 

[Free Hit]

Punjabi, one can pick up quite easily.

Sindhi, Balochi are very difficult, can't make sense of them at all.

dunno what Saraiki, Hindko, Potohari sound like, so not sure.

and of course Pushto, well, we can all understand that, can't we

satanamsaday, da va da ki gi na.haha good friendship at school is paying of

 

[Prince_Pathan]

sta sa num day

that defo isnt a diff dialect

that sounds like satan amsa day lol...

 

[Mr.Awesome<(-_-)>]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VD2FuLuH6g&feature=player_embedded#

This is what we speak at home when not speaking English

 

[AlCapone]

Bumping this thread

I don't think any of the languages in Pakistan are mutually intelligible apart from Punjabi and Seraiki, and maybe Hindko/Pahari/Potohari and the other dialects of Punjabi.

Pashto,Sindhi,Balochi,Brahui and the exotic languages up north are very different from each other and the languages I've mentioned above.

 

[TAK]

Urdu = no swears
Punjabi= All the swear that you can think of

What utter nonsense!

A foul mouthed person is foul mouthed person...