Delete Awankari and Sohain (Sawain)

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Delete Awankari and Sohain (Sawain)

Parvez Qadir, Fri, 2022-12-16 05:53
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ISO 639-3: 
pnb

Awankari is dialect of Hinko Southern. See. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/avan1234 So Talagang (Awankari) and Sohain (Sawain) be deleted from here.

Editorial Action

We will remove dialect names Avankari (Talagang) and Sohain (Sawain) from Western Punjabi, and add them to Southern Hindko [hnd] in Pakistan, all to be included in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Mon, 2022-12-19 10:01

Dear Parvez,

Thank you for this information on the Awankari and Sohain dialects, currently featured as dialect names for Western Punjabi [pnb] in Pakistan.

Most of this information in the Ethnologue comes from Dyrud and Radloff 2011*. See also this contribution: https://www.ethnologue.com/contribution/703336. How do you respond to this information from Dr. Ameer Sultan? Could there possibly be 2 Awankari dialect names, one for Western Punjabi [pnb], the other for Southern Hindko [hnd]?

Your information comes from Glottolog, which is a reliable source for classifications. It seems that you may be correct about Awankari (Talagang), since Glottolog has "Avankari Hindko" as a dialect name under Southern Hindko. However, Glottolog does not list Sohain (Sawain) for Southern Hindko. In Dyrud and Radloff 2011, it is said that this dialect is "spoken in Fateh Jang, and more specifically Fateh Jang tehsil, Attock district, in the valley of the Sohan River" which would probably put it in the Southern Hindko area.

Best regards,

Charles Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

*Dyrud, L. and C. Radloff. 2011. "A sociolinguistic survey of Punjab, Pakistan". Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan 10. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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