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About Punjabi Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
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1.3 National Language
India, Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
  • Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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Rank: 32 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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41
Rank: 30 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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6 weeks
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
3.2 Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
3.3 How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
3.4 Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
3.7 Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.8 Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
3.9 Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
3.10 Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
3.11 I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
3.12 Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Pothohari
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Saraiki
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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20,000,000.00
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4.3 Dialect 3
Doabi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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30
Rank: 24 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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154.30 million
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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1.44 %
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5.3 Native Speakers
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100.00 million
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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54.30 million
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5.3.2 Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
5.3.4 French Name
pendjabi
5.3.5 German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Availble
5.5 Ethnicity
Punjabis
6 History
6.1 Origin
1000 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
pa
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
pan
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
pan
7.3 ISO 639 3
pan
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
panj1256
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

Know Alphabets in Punjabi

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Punjabi Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Punjabi Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Punjabi. Punjabi phonology gives Punjabi vowels and Punjabi consonants. There are 9 vowels and 41 consonants in Punjabi language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Punjabi is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Punjabi language is given in detail in this section.

All Punjabi countries

Want to explore all Punjabi countries? About Punjabi language serves you with all Punjabi Speaking Countries. Countries that use Punjabi as official language are called as Punjabi countries.

  • Countries that use Punjabi as their National Language are: India, Pakistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Punjabi as second language are: Pakistan.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Punjabi greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Punjabi Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Punjabi language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Punjabi language.Learn Punjabi greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
  • Thank you: ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
  • Good Morning: ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  • Good Evening: ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  • Good Afternoon: ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)

All Punjabi Language Codes

Get to know all Punjabi language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Punjabi Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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