also called JATKI, OR WESTERN PANJABI, language belonging
to the western group of Indo-Aryan languages and spoken mainly
in the western Punjab, Pakistan. One of the most important of
its numerous dialects is Multani. Lahnda has a large
number of Persian and Arabic loanwords and shares features with
Kashmiri and Sindhi. There is little recorded literature in
the language. The Muslims use the Persian form of the Arabic
script to write Lahnda; the Hindus use the Lahnda
script.