See also:

• PANJABI (properly PANJABI')

PANJABI (properly PANJABI')  , the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of the Central See also:

• PUNJAB

Punjab (properly Panjab) . It is spoken by over 71,000,000 See also:

• PEOPLE

people between (approximately speaking) the 77th and 74th degrees of See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• LONGITUDE (from Lat. longitudo, " length ")

longitude . The See also:

• VERNACULAR (Lat. verna, dim. vernaculus, a slave horn in his master's house)

vernacular of this See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract was originally an old See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• LAHNDA (properly Lahnda or Lahinda, western, or Lahnde- di boli, the language of the West)

Lahnda, a member of the See also:

• OUTER

outer See also:

• GROUP

group of Indo-See also:

• ARYAN

Aryan See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages (q.v.), but it has been overlaid by the expansion of the midland Sauraseni See also:

• PRAKRIT (prakrta, natural)

Prakrit (see PRAKRIT) to its east, and now belongs to the intermediate group, possessing most of the characteristics of the midland language, with occasional traces of the old outer basis which become more and more prominent as we go westwards . At the 74th degree of east longitude we find it merging into the modern Lahnda .