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Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
53 32

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
41 30

Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
4 3

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks 3

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 53

Dialect 2
Saraiki

Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00 26

Dialect 3
Doabi

Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India

How Many People Speak
130,000,000.00 3

Total No. Of Dialects
30 24

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
154.30 million 12

Speaking Population
1.44 % 12

Native Speakers
100.00 million 11

Second Language Speakers
54.30 million 17

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
23 21

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope
-

Code

ISO 639 1
pa

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

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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.

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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.

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