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1. PUNJABI

2.  Punjabi is the native language of about 130 million
people, and is the 10th most spoken language in the
world.
 Most of the people who speak this language live in
the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
 Punjabi is the religious language of the Sikhs. It is
also the language of the popular Bhangra folk dance
and singing.

3.  Punjabi is classified as a member of the Indo-Aryan
subgroup of the Indo-European family of languages.
 The word Punjabi is derived from the word Panj-āb,
Persian for "Five Waters", referring to the five major
eastern tributaries of the Indus River.
 Punjabi developed from Sanskrit through Prakrit
language and later Apabhraṃśa
 Many Persian and Arabic words were incorporated in
Punjabi.

4.  Punjabi is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan and is
the provincial language in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
 Punjabi is spoken as a native language by over 44.15% of
Pakistanis. About 70.0% of the people of Pakistan speak
Punjabi as either their first or second language, and for some
as their third language.
 86% of the total population of Lahore is native Punjabi and
Islamabad
 In India, Punjabi is spoken as a native language by 3% of the
population. This was about 33 million in 2011. It is the official
language of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.

6.  The major dialects of Punjabi include Majhi, Doabi,
Malwai, Powadhi, Pothohari, and Multani. Others
are Shahpuri or Sargodha dialect, Dhani,
Jhangochi/Changvi, Jangli/Rachnavi, Hindko,
Jandali, Jafri/Khetrani, Chenavari etc.
In India, Punjabi is written in Gurmukhī, a
standardised script. The word Gurmukhi translates
into 'from the Guru's mouth'. In Pakistan, the
Shahmukhī script, meaning "from the King's mouth",
based on the Persian abjad is used.

7. English Gurmukhi based (India) Shahmukhi based
(Pakistan)
President ਪਰਧਾਨ (pardhān) ‫(صدرمملکت‬sadar-e
mulmikat)
Article ਲੇਖ (lēkh) ‫(مضمون‬mazmūn)
Prime Minister ਪਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ (pardhān matarī) ‫(وزیراعظم‬wazir-e
aʿzam)
Family ਪਰਵਾਰ/ਟੱਬਰ (parvār/ṭabbar) ‫ّر‬‫ب‬‫ٹ‬/‫خاندان‬
(khāndān/ṭabbar)
Philosophy ਫਲਸਫਾ (falsafā) (‫فلسفہ‬falsafā)
Capital ਰਾਜਧਾਨੀ (rājdhānī) ‫راجدغانڑ‬/‫دارالحکومت‬
(dārul
haqūmat/rājghar)
Viewer ਦਰਸ਼ਕ (darśak) ‫(ناظرین‬nāzrīn)

8. 60%
8%
10%
10%
Pakistan's languages
Punjabi Urdu Pashto Balochi

9. 1. Mughal and Sikh period:-
 The earliest Punjabi literature is found in the fragments of
writings of the 11th Nath yogis Gorakshanath and Charpatnah.
 Fariduddin Ganjshakar of Pak Pattan is generally recognised as the
first major poet of the Punjabi language.
 Bulle Shah is considered as one of the greatest Sufi poets.
 Punjabi Sufi poetry developed under Shah Hussain (1538–1599),
Sultan Bahu (1628–1691), Shah Sharaf (1640–1724), Ali Haider
(1690–1785), Saleh Muhammad Safoori (son of Hazrat Mai
Safoora Qadiriyya, whom Ali Haider had given great tribute) and
Bulleh Shah (1680–1757).

10. 2. British Raj era and post-independence period:-
• The Victorian novel, Elizabethan drama, free verse and
Modernism entered Punjabi literature through the
introduction of British education during the Raj.
• Nanak Singh (1897–1971), Vir Singh, Ishwar Nanda, Amrita
Pritam (1919–2005), Puran Singh (1881–1931), Dhani Ram
Chatrik (1876–1957), Diwan Singh (1897–1944), Ustad Daman
(1911–1984), Mohan Singh (1905–78) and Shareef Kunjahi are
some legendary Punjabi writers of this period.
• After independence of Pakistan and India Najm Hossein Syed,
Fakhar Zaman and Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Shafqat Tanvir
Mirza, Ahmad Salim, and Najm Hosain Syed, Munir Niazi, Pir
Hadi abdul Mannan enriched Punjabi literature in Pakistan