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Figure (1) Lexical similarity percentages for Gujari word lists
Kunar, Afghanistan
88 Chitral
93 92 Dir Western cluster
84 85 89 Peshmal Swat
85 88 90 94 Transhumant Swat
85 90 87 87 92 Gilgit
74 79 76 81 83 81 Kaghan
70 73 73 74 75 73 85 Southern Hazara Eastern cluster
69 72 72 71 74 73 88 83 Northern Azad Kashmir
71 74 74 75 80 75 83 85 86 Central Azad Kashmir
64 66 66 65 69 66 73 78 79 91 Southern Azad Kashmir
67 71 70 69 74 71 77 75 81 91 81 Poonch Gojri, India
54 58 56 58 58 57 61 60 60 68 61 61 Gujranwala
62 65 63 66 71 67 79 81 80 77 71 71 53 Balakot Hindko Other
51 56 55 57 61 56 64 71 64 73 67 63 58 70 Panjabi Languages
47 52 50 54 56 53 62 59 57 71 63 64 65 56 56 Urdu
10 11 11 11 12 10 11 13 10 12 10 8 9 11 9 13 Yusufzai Pashto
2.2.5 Evidence of Gujari Dialect Groupings: East-West
Continuum
The lexical similarity counts suggest that there is a
continuum of similarity between varieties of Gujari ranging in a
general east to west direction across northern Pakistan. The
Gujranwala list deviates from this pattern and will be discussed
separately. The east-west word list continuum can be analyzed in
terms of two dialect clusters although the percentages are not as
neatly separable as such a division might suggest. Nonetheless,
with the exception of the Kaghan word list discussed as a border
area below, the range of similarity percentages for each location
shows higher counts for comparisons within its dialect cluster
than are shown between that location and those locations outside
that cluster. Thus Western locations display higher similarity to
other Western locations than they display to any Eastern
locations, and vice versa. The lexical similarity percentages
within each tentative dialect cluster are generally between 80 and