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and the language of the majority of the people in the Hazara 
district is practically the same, though with many local differences. 
A Multan! Jat who was with me in the Hazara in 1893, was delighted 
at finding himself understood by the people there when he spoke his own 
dialect. 
2. Jatld. This is not a good name because there are tens of thou¬ 
sands of Jats who do not speak it. This is the name used in the Census 
Report of 1881. 
3. Western Panjabi (or Lahindi) the name used in Tisdall’s Sim¬ 
plified Panjabi Grammar. 
4. UccI (also spelt Ociki or Wuci.) This is one name used 
in the Seram pore translation of the Hew Testament and it is derived 
from Uc the name of an old and important town in the Bahawulpur 
State which was once (probably) the capital of a large district. This 
name is still given to one version of the characters used by the Banyas 
of the South Panjab for writing their accounts. 
5. Hiudiki. The name given in the Census report of 1881 to 
the language spoken by the majority of the people in the Hazara. 
The language is spoken in : — 
1. The Native State of Bahawulpur. 
2. The district of Multan. 
3. ,, „ Muzaffargarh. 
4. The Derajat, including both Dera Grhazi Khan and Dera 
Ishmall Khan, and extends into some of the vallies beyond the Sulaiman 
range. 
5. The Hazara district certainly on the Kashmir side from Hasan 
Abdal up (at all events) to the Khagan range. 
6. Probably in the northern parts of the Doab lying between 
the Jhelum and the Indus, but I have no information from those parts 
or from the Salt Range. 
There are, of course, many local differences over such an extent of 
country, and words are in some parts borrowed from neighbouring 
languages which are unknown in other parts. 
Thus, in the South of the Bahawulpur State, words are naturally 
borrowed from Sindhi. 
In the Derajat there is an admixture of Baltic! and Pashtu. 
Towards the East the language is lost in Panjabi which, however, 
here and there retains words and grammatical inflections which belong 
to the older language. 
In travelling from Multan towards Lahore one very soon passes 
away from Western Punjabi; but if one continues one’s journey north- 
