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Rangri (also spelt Ranghri) is a dialect of the Haryanvi language spoken by Ranghar Rajpoot Muslim Muhajirs in Pakistani Punjab and small areas in Sindh. It is still spoken in Haryana, India (as Puadhi and Haryanvi), but in Pakistan it is called Rangri because of its close association with Muslims Rajpoot Ranghar communities and also because it is mainly spoken by them. It is spoken primarily in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Khanpur, Okara, Layyah, Vehari, Sahiwal, Phularwan, and Multan as well as Mirpur Khas and Nawabshah, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar.

After Partition, 1.2 million Haryanvi-speaking Muslims 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 and all over Pakistan. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, many Uttar Pradesh Ranghars also migrated to Sindh in Pakistan and mostly settling in Karachi.Most Ranghar are now bilingual, speaking Urdu language as National. Punjabi, Saraiki and Sindhi as Regional, as well as still speaking Rāngrri language as "First Language" or "Mother Language" or "Village Language" or "Community language".There are about 15.6 million Ranghri Speaking Muslims Living across Pakistan.

References

1. Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F. (11 January 2011). Ranghar. VDM. ISBN 9786134766029.
2. "Punjabi Think Tank: Ranghari Speakers from Haryana". 24 June 2020.
3. https://kjlr.pk/index.php/kjlr/article/download/148/86

• Languages of Punjab, Pakistan
• Languages of Sindh
• Indo-Aryan languages
• Haryanvi
• Haryanavi culture