About Punjabi Language | Punjabi | Alphabets in Punjabi

Countries

India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

India, Pakistan

Second Language

Pakistan

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

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.

Similar To

Hindi Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 32 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 30 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks

Rank: 3 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)

Thank You

ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)

How Are You?

ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)

Good Night

ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)

Good Evening

ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)

Good Afternoon

ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)

Good Morning

ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)

Please

ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)

Sorry

ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)

Bye

ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)

I Love You

ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)

Excuse Me

ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Pothohari

Where They Speak

Pakistan

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00

Rank: 53 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Saraiki

Where They Speak

Afganistan, India, Pakistan

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00

Rank: 26 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Doabi

Where They Speak

Pakistan, Punjab, India

How Many People Speak

130,000,000.00

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 24 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

154.30 million

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.44 %

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

100.00 million

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

54.30 million

Rank: 17 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی

Alternative Names

Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi

French Name

pendjabi

German Name

Pandschabi-Sprache

Pronunciation

Not Availble

Ethnicity

Punjabis

History

Origin

1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Shauraseni, Kaikeyi

Standard Forms

Modern Punjabi

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pan

ISO 639 2/B

pan

ISO 639 3

pan

ISO 639 6

panj

Glottocode

panj1256

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

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.

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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.