Punjabi

Also known as Punjabi language, Panjabi, Panjabi language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India

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Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Punjab region, which spans parts of both Pakistan and India. It matters because it is the native language of millions of people in South Asia and serves as an important marker of cultural and regional identity for Punjabi communities.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: language
Subclass of: Punjabi dialects and languages
Named after: Punjab
Country: Spain
Located in: Islamabad Capital Territory
Location: Kashmir
Image: Punjabi example.svg

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has phoneme: voiced alveolar nasal
Commons category: Punjabi language
Wikimedia language code: pa
linguistic typology: syllabic language
native label: Panjabi
category for films in this language: Category:Punjabi-language films
has grammatical case: instrumental case
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
P10369: wheel
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 125000000
used by: Indians
indigenous to: Kashmir
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has grammatical gender: masculine
ethnic group: Punjabis
topic's main category: Category:Punjabi language
has grammatical mood: imperative
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PAN
P10832: Moldova
P11012: Kiel
P13311: Saxony

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Encyclopedic overview

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers.

Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023 Pakistani census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, according to the 2011 census. It is spoken among a significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Gulf states.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punjabi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.