332 Trevor Bomford— Language spoken in the Western Panjab. [No. 4, 
From Abstract 52, ice get the following results. 
Name of District. 
• 
Total Popula¬ 
tion. 
Percentage 
Speaking 
Jatki. 
i.e., roughly. 
Multan 
631,434 
8499 
536,000 
Muzaffargarh 
381,095 
96 72 
370,000 
Dera Ghazi Khan ... 
404,031 
89663 
364,000 
Dera Ishmail Khan 
486,201 
83 05 
403,000 
Bahawulpur 
650,042 
21-47 
136,000 
Bannu... ••• ••• ••• 
372,276 
25-42 
93,000 
Total 
2,925,079 
... • • • 
1,902,000 
The following returns from certain districts shov: how many people returned 
themselves as speaking Western Panjabi. 
Name of District. 
Total Popula¬ 
tion. 
Percentage 
speaking 
Jatki. 
i.e., roughly. 
Shahpur 
. . • 
493,588 
99-85 
493 000 
Jhilam 
• . . 
609,056 
9949 
608,000 
Bawul Pindi 
887,194 
9422 
834,000 
Hazara 
516,288 
92-29 
474,000 
Peshawar 
. , , 
703,768 
179 
126,000 
Kohat ••• ••• 
... 
203,175 
20-75 
42,000 
Bannu 
• . • 
372,276 
21-6 
82,000 
Bahawulpur 
• • • 
650,042 
7212 
468,000 
Total 
... 
4,435,387 
3,127,000 
Notes on the above abstracts. 
Bearing in mind the difficulties of ascertaining the character of the 
dialect spoken in each district, owing to the variety of local names; and 
remembering that both in the Multan district and the Hazara the 
popular name for the local dialect is Panjabi, no matter how much it 
may differ from the Panjabi of Amritsar, I think we may say that all 
who are returned as speaking Jatki do speak what I have endeavoured 
to describe as Western Panjabi. With those returned as speaking 
Panjabi it is more difficult to deal, but I should think it probable that 
the language of at least two-thirds of the people in Rawal Pindi, 
Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat and Bannu, and one-tliird of those in Jhilam 
and Shalipur, was more akin to Western Panjabi than to Panjabi 
proper. 
