Countries
India, Pakistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Pakistan
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
-
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Hindi Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4123
9
60
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Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
سلام
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
متشکرم
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
صبح به خیر
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
لطفا
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
متاسف
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Doabi
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
130,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.44 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
100.00 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
فارسی
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
pendjabi
persan
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Persisch
Pronunciation
Not Availble
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Punjabis
Persian people
Origin
1000 AD
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
Persian
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Persian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
pa
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
fas
ISO 639 2/B
pan
per
ISO 639 3
pan
pes
ISO 639 6
panj
pers
Glottocode
panj1256
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic