Countries
India, Pakistan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Germany
Second Language
Pakistan
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
-
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Hindi Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
419
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
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
hallo
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
Danke
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
guten Tag
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
guten Morgen
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
bitte
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Verzeihung
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
Tschüs
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Germany
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Doabi
Texas German
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
Texas
How Many People Speak
130,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3028
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
154.30 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.44 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
100.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million128.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
pendjabi
allemand
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Availble
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Punjabis
Germans
Origin
1000 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Branch
Indic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
239
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed German
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
pa
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
deu
ISO 639 2/B
pan
ger
ISO 639 3
pan
deu
ISO 639 6
panj
deus
Glottocode
panj1256
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic