Od
A language of Pakistan
| Population | 50,000 (1998). |
| Region | Widespread in Sindh; a few in south Punjab. Possibly in Rajasthan, India. |
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Southern Pakistan |
| Alternate names | Oad, Odki |
| Dialects | Resembles Marathi with Gujarati features and borrowings from Marwari [mve] and Panjabi. Lexical similarity: 86%–88% among dialects in Dadu, Shikarpur, and Pithoro, 70%–78% with Marwari, Dhatki [mki], and Bagri [bgq]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Unclassified |
| Language use | Most also use Sindhi [snd] or Urdu [urd]. |
| Writing system | Arabic script. |
| Comments | Brickmakers, builders. |
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