The eastern boundary roughly coincides with the East Gabhir stream (beyond which is found the Dhanochi dialect), while the Salt Range forms the fuzzy southern border with Shahpuri.

Waṇāḍhī is spoken in the eastern half of Awankari's territory, in the plains of the Wanadh region centred on the town of Talagang.

[3] Bahri also noted the differences of vocabulary between the speech forms of Muslims and Hindus.

[8] Stress is particularly prominent in the southwestern Pakhri subdialect, where it is accompanied by a jerk of the head and a rise of the larynx.

[9] Unlike most other Indo-Aryan languages, Awankari possesses a system of contrastive tone, which is however simpler than that of Punjabi.

[11] In the analysis of Kalicharan Bahl, the rare low rising tone is treated as a non-phonemic effect that accompanies medial /ɦ/.

In the western dialects there is a tendency for the loss of aspiration (in both voiced and voiceless plosives) in certain contexts : compare Wanadhi /ɡʊtthi/ with Reshi /ɡʊtti/ 'pocket'.

[20] The retroflex lateral /ɭ/ (as in /mɑɭi/ 'gardener'), a sound described by Bahri as "important and peculiar" to Awankari,[21] is of uncertain phonemic status.

Hardev Bahri observed in the 1930s that it was generally not pronounced by the Hindus, especially in the big villages, who substituted it with the alveolar /l/.

For those speakers who do pronounce it, it can occur in the middle and at the end of words, in contrast to the alveolar /l/ which is found only word-initially.

In its articulation the tongue normally makes two contacts, but the number varies depending on the context: it is greater in a stressed position or before a high-falling tone, a long vowel, or /l/.