Punjabi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
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Summary
Punjabi is a modern language[1]. Punjabi draws 16,329 Wikipedia views per month (modern language category, ranking #6 of 43).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Punjabis[3]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Azad Kashmir[4], Jammu and Kashmir[5], West Bengal[6], Punjab[7], Haryana[8], Delhi[9], Islamabad Capital Territory[10]
- Country: Pakistan[11], India[12], United Kingdom[13], Kenya[14], Malaysia[15], South Africa[16], Bangladesh[17], People's Republic of China[18], Canada[19], Thailand[20], Fiji[21], Afghanistan[22], Saudi Arabia[23], United Arab Emirates[24]
- Instance of: natural language[25], language[26]
- Named after: Punjab[27]
- Location: Punjab[28], Kashmir[29]
- Subclass of: Punjabi dialects and languages[30]
- Writing system: Shahmukhi[31], Gurmukhi[32], Mahajani[33], Urdu orthography[34], Informal Roman Urdu[35], Devanagari[36], Punjabi Braille[37]
- Part of: Schedule languages of India[38]
- Commons category: Punjabi language[39]
- Wikimedia language code: pnb[40], pa[41]
- Said to be the same as: Western Punjabi[42], Lehndi[43], Eastern Punjabi[44]
- Topic's main category: Category:Punjabi language[45]
- Language regulatory body: Department of Languages, Punjab[46], Punjab Institute of Language, Art, and Culture[47]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 125,000,000[48]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[49], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[50], Punjabi-English Dictionary[51]
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Influence
Things named for Punjabi include Punjabi University[52], a university[53], in India[54], founded in 1962[55].
Why It Matters
Punjabi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] Punjabi is known by 120 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]
Entities named for Punjabi include Punjabi University[52], a university[53], in India[54], founded in 1962[55].