Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lah
Lahnda Language
Lahnda is an Indo-European language spoken by about 93 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Lahnda is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Lahnda language
Lahnda is spoken by about 93 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family.
Where is Lahnda spoken?
Lahnda is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Pakistan (101 million) and India (35,228).
Share of the population that speaks Lahnda: Pakistan 40% (101 million) and India <0.1% (35,228).
Lahnda is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Lahnda is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are English, Hindi, Spanish, Bengali, Urdu, Portuguese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 lah.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.