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 .
Read more about this topic: Okara District
Famous quotes containing the word language:
“Whether we regard the Women’s Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
—Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)
“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)