The linguistic no man's land

During the 1966 state reorganisation of Punjab, Puadhi speakers got split right in half between Punjab and Haryana Puadhi is the least intelligible out of all eastern Punjabi dialects and region was the poorest . For a long time they were considered weirdos and Puadhi was heavily discouraged and the region was generally looked down upon in both parts of the state.

u/Napoleon-of-britain — 3 months ago