Countries
India, Pakistan
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Pakistan
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Hindi Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4113
9
60
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Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
Moi
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
Kiitos
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
haluta
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Anteeksi
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
Heippa
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Finland
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Rauma
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Doabi
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
130,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3021
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
154.30 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.44 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
100.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Suomi
French Name
pendjabi
finnois
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Finnisch
Pronunciation
Not Availble
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Punjabis
ethnic Finns
Origin
1000 AD
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Indic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
standard Finnish
Language Position
2322
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Finnish
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
pa
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
fin
ISO 639 2/B
pan
fin
ISO 639 3
pan
fin
ISO 639 6
panj
fin
Glottocode
panj1256
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic