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|[[Jhangvi|Jhangvi]]||[[Jhang District]], [[Faisalabad District]], [[Gujrat District]], [[Mandi Bahauddin]], [[Chakwal]], [[Hafizabad]], [[Gujranwala District]], [[Jangal Bar]] tract of [[Faisalabad District]], [[Okara]], [[pakpattan]] and all regions encompassing the former [[Montgomery District]] ||[[Jhangochi]], Jhangi ||Jhangvi dialects actually be closer to the [[Saraiki language]]. It also includes Nissoani sub-dialect or local name of Jhangi spoken by a tribe, Nissoana, as of 1919 in northern parts of [[Jhang District]]. Another sub-dialect of Jhangi, Kacchī, is named for alluvial desert plain of [[Kacchi]], southwest of [[Jhang]] town.Dialect of [[Jhangochi]] spoken by the pastoral tribes of the mentioned areas, such as the [[Kharals]], [[Wattus]], [[Johiyas]], who used to rear cattle and sheep in the jungles, before irrigation of the region. It is also called Chenavari (Cināwaṛī or Cinhāwaṛī) due to the name of an area on the right bank of the [[Chenab River]].

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[[File:Dialects of Sindhi.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Saraiki areas in Sindh in orange]]

Since [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Urdu]] and [[Hindi]] are spoken in a region that has witnessed significant ethnic and identity conflict, all have been exposed to the [[dialect]] versus language question. Each of these languages possesses a central standard on which its literature is based, and from which there are multiple dialectal variations. At various times, Saraiki also contended to be a dialect of Punjabi as well as a dialect of Sindhi spoken in North ten districts of Province Sindh Pakistan. There is also a debate about it being the initial form of Urdu language after first muslim ruler arraived indo pak and made Multan the capital of Sindh that time.<ref name="book0d0">