Rangri dialect (Haryanvi)

Not to be confused with Rangri dialect (Malvi).

Rangri (also spelt Ranghri) is a dialect of the Haryanvi language spoken by Ranghar Muhajirs in Pakistani Punjab and small areas in Sindh.^[1][2] It is was originally spoken in Haryana, India but is nowadays primarily spoken in Pakistan.^[3] Its spoken areas include Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Khanpur, Okara, Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal, Phularwan, and Multan as well as Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar.

Rangri
Native to	Pakistan
Region	Punjab
Ethnicity	Ranghar (Muhajirs)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone Haryanvi Rangri
Writing system	Arabic script (Nastaliq)[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	hary1238

Demographics

After the partition of India, 1.2 million Haryanvi-speaking Muslims (Muhajirs) migrated from Haryana and Delhi in India to Pakistan. Today in Pakistan, it is a mother tongue of millions of Ranghar Muslims. They live in thousands of villages in Punjab, Pakistan, and hundreds of villages in Sindh. After partition, many Uttar Pradesh Ranghars also migrated to Sindh in Pakistan and mostly settled in Karachi.

Most Ranghar are now bilingual in either Urdu, Punjabi or Sindhi but due to state negligence as well cultural assimilation in Punjab and Sindh fewer speak the language with each passing generation, and it's estimated that slightly more than 500,000 may be the real number of Rangri speakers.^[4]