Inku is an Indo-Aryan language spoken, at least historically, throughout Afghanistan by four of the country's itinerant communities: the Jalali, the Pikraj, the Shadibaz and the Vangawala.
[4] Such an origin suggests that Inku may be related to the Saraiki language spoken there,[5] though nothing is conclusively known.
[8] Linguistic materials about the varieties spoken by the Shadibaz, Vangawala and Pikraj were collected by Aparna Rao in the 1970s, but they have not been published or analysed yet.
[3] The following is an extract of a text narrated in 1978 by a man of the Chenarkhel subgroup of the Vangawala:[9] asonalisten(?
attentionasāñwetathenbewatancountrylessteandbezamīñlandlessbejedadpropertylesseñ.areasāñ ta bewatan te bezamīñ bejedad eñ.we then countryless and landless propertyless areasoursāṛe ḍāḍeancestorsisthisvatancountrykonotoāeñcameBalučistānBaluchistankoloñ.fromas sāṛe ḍāḍe is vatan kono āeñ Balučistān koloñ.our {} ancestors this country to came Baluchistan fromasoursāṛe ḍāḍeancestorsBalučistānBaluchistankoloñfromāeñ.cameas sāṛe ḍāḍe Balučistān koloñ āeñ.our {} ancestors Baluchistan from cameteandisthisvatancountryvičinasāñwetaqribanaboutsō100ḍiḍ sō150varāyearsthihas/havegaiñ.becomete is vatan vič asāñ taqriban sō {ḍiḍ sō} varā thi gaiñ.and this country in we about 100 150 years has/have becomesō100ḍiḍ sō150warāyearsthihas/havegayābecomeasāwebejedādpropertylessbezamīnlandlessvadiyeñ.are in troublesō {ḍiḍ sō} warā thi gayā asā bejedād bezamīn vadiyeñ.100 150 years has/have become we propertyless landless {are in trouble}