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Calvin R. Rensch
Patterns of travel to Lahore and Karachi are similar in Singo
Di Garhi to those of Jammun: about three-fifths of the
respondents have traveled to these cities. They have stayed for
short periods (1-6 days) in Lahore, but some have remained for
six months or more in Karachi.
It is of interest that few respondents in Singo Di Garhi (only
one third) report travel to Peshawar. A larger percentage of
respondents from Sherpur have visited Peshawar. The lack of
travel to Peshawar on the part of Singo Di Garhi residents may
correlate with their low use of Pashto, which in turn seems to be
related to infrequent contact with Pashto speakers in their home
area.
2.3 Language Use in Sherpur
Representatives of forty Hindko-speaking households
participated in a study of language-use patterns in Sherpur, a
community located ten kilometers northwest of the town of
Mansehra.
Respondents from Sherpur report using Pashto, Urdu,
Panjabi and Gujari in addition to Hindko. The languages used
with those whom they recognize as speakers of other languages
are presented in figure (2.3).