292 Trevor Bomford — Language spoken in the Western Panjab.' '[No. 4, 
wards from Lahore, it is again met with about Rawal Pindl and from 
there onwards. 
Note 1. Sir R. F. Burton writes: 
a. In the country parts of the South Panjab the people 
use the Jatkl dialect, which in the North-Western 
Pahjab abounds in words borrowed from Pashtu 
or Dogri. 
b. Jats are divided into— 
1. Panjabi Jats. 
2. Hazara Jats. 
Note 2. Extract from Census Report of 1881. 
Population. 
Jatkl Speaking. 
Multan District 
551,000 
• • • 
375,000 
M uzaffargarh 
346,000 
• • • 
331,000 
Dera Grhazl Khan 
• 
363,000 
324,000 
„ Ishmail „ 
441,000 
• • • 
90,000 
Jliang 
395,000 
• it 
86 
Montgomery 
... 426,000 
• •• 
119 
Native States 
550,000 
• • • 
492,000 
Hazara 
407,000 
• • • 
362,000 
1,974,205 
It is impossible from the Report to make out how many of the in¬ 
habitants of Shahpur, Jlielum, Rawal Pindl and Peshawar habitually 
speak Western Panjabi, but probably nearly another million should be 
added to the total. 
It will be seen from the above that the language is strongest in the 
Muzaffargarh and Hera Grhazl districts and in the Native State of 
Bahawulpur, which has a population of 500,000 of whom 492,000 
speak it. It is probably purest in the Muzaffargajb district, for there it 
comes in contact with no other language. 
Regarding the Census of 1891, see Appendix II. 
The principal differences between Western PafLjabl and 
PafLjabl proper are to be found : — 
1. In the formation of the future. This is always made in 
Western Panjabi with an ‘s’ instead of a ‘ g ’ as in Urdu. 
The ‘ s ’ it is true lingers all over the Pahjab and maintains a 
feeble struggle against the more modern form, but in the West of the 
Pahjab it holds undisputed sway. 
It is probably the oldest way of all of forming the future from the 
root of the verb, but has almost everywhere given place to other ways. 
