1895.] Trevor Bomford — Language spoken in the Western Panjab. 331 
how they were distributed, and what has become of them. About 5 
copies are now known to be in existence. 
In Plates XXVIII and XXIX will be found the characters used in the 
Serampur translation compared with those now used in Multan and Uc. 
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Appendix II. 
Extract from Census Report of 1891. 
Jatki or Multani is the language of the Lower Indus Valley in this 
Province. From its prevalence in the Derajat it is also called Derawal 
and also Hindi, Hindko or Hindld. It is also known as Bahawulpuri. 
I have entered it as Jatki because, this name was used in 1881, but 
the term was used in the schedules only in the Dera Ghazi Khan district. 
The term Multani was confined to the districts of Multan and Muzaf- 
fargarh while the term Hindki was used on the rest of the Dirajat 
frontier. Hindi, Hindko and Hindki are terms much confused by the 
people. Hindki is more commonly applied to the Jatki language while 
Hindkd is more frequently used for the Panjabi dialect spoken on the 
Northern part of the Indus. I have drawn an arbitrary line between 
the Baim and Kohat districts and have classed all entries of Hindi, &c., 
South of that line with Jatki and all North of that line with Panjabi. 
I can not, however, ascertain what course was pursued in 1881, but the 
figures give no clue to the real facts and only show that some different 
system of classification of the items must have been adopted in 1881. 
The returns from Bahawalpur would seem to imply that some general 
orders had been given at the present Census for the return of the lan¬ 
guage of that state as Panjabi or Hindi instead of Jatki; for the Panjabi 
speakers of this Census are nearly 6 times as numerous as in 1881, 
while the Jatki speakers have fallen to a quarter of the previous 
figure. 
Abstract No. 51 showing the number of 'persons speaking each language 
returned in the schedules. 
^ Jatki 
Panjabi (in Muzaffargajh) 
Derawal 
Hindki (in Derajat) 
79,156 
4,416 
32,106 
576,732 
Jatki, i. e. 
511 
21 
Hindi (in Bahawulpur, Bannu, Dera 
lshmail and Dera Ghazi 
Multani 
311,695 
895,285 
1,899,922 
