Language
Most of the people of the district speak Punjabi, as a majority of the urban population in and around the major administrative towns of Okara & Renala Khurd who have roots in that area, & belong mainly to the Arain & Ranghar clans. However, deviating from the main Lahore-Multan route, the accent starts changing to the Rajasthani accent. This has been the original tongue of the people back when irrigation was a distant facility, and most of the people used to rear cattle as the main occupation, along the courses of the rivers Ravi and Satluj. It is spoken by the natives of the Ravi belt (major towns include Gogera, Satghara, Mouza Meerak etc.) belonging to the Joiya Kharal, Baloch, Kathia, Kamiana & Jakhar clans, as well as the Satluj belt around Dipalpur(encompassing major towns such as Shergarh, Hujra Shah Muqeem, Haveli Lakha etc.) belonging to the Wattu, Bodla, Baloch, Bhatti & Jurrera clans. And other clans live in Maitla's .
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