This could be very much annoying for a person who knows how to speak saraiki but don't knows about meaning of word "saraiki" or origin of word Saraiki, sometime it feels that name of the saraiki language was chosen by saraiki peoples....

Saiin,

Before, Sindhu and Sauvira (سو ویرا) were two states in the region of Indus Valley. The Sindhu country now is called Sindh province and Sauvira country now is called Saraikistan province of Pakistan. The word Saraiki is after the state name Sauvira (The meaning of Sau-vira is the country of hundred brothers):

Sauvira + Ki (an affix) = Suviraki

By dropping the consonat v and its surrounding vowels in Sauviraki for the sake of simplification it became Saraiki. So Saraiki meaning becomes the language of the region which originally called Sauvira.

There are some other theories too about etymolgy of Saraiki langauage name but the mentioned one is the most probable and linguistically verified.

Regards -- (sadrsevra@yahoo.com)

Saiin,

Before, Sindhu and Sauvira (سو ویرا) were two states in the region of Indus Valley. The Sindhu country now is called Sindh province and Sauvira country now is called Saraikistan province of Pakistan. The word Saraiki is after the state name Sauvira (The meaning of Sau-vira is the country of hundred brothers):

Sauvira + Ki (an affix) = Suviraki

By dropping the consonat v and its surrounding vowels in Sauviraki for the sake of simplification it became Saraiki. So Saraiki meaning becomes the language of the region which originally called Sauvira.

There are some other theories too about etymolgy of Saraiki langauage name but the mentioned one is the most probable and linguistically verified.

Regards -- (sadrsevra@yahoo.com)