Punjabi

Punjabi is the native language of the residents of the area of India and Pakistan called Punjab. This area is situated in North West part of India and North East Pakistan and includes the cities of Amritsar, Lahore, Jallandar, Ludihana, etc.

The Punjabi language can be written in two different scripts – Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi script. The Gurmukhi script is derived from the Landa alphabet and standardized by Guru Angad Dev (the second Sikh Guru) in the 16th century. This script was designed to write the Punjabi language and other native languages.

The word Gurmukhi literally means - "From the Mouth of the Guru". The whole of the Guru Granth Sahib's 1430 pages are written in this script.

External Links:

• Free online Diaspora Punjabi (Gurmukhi) lessons
• Learn Gurmukhi - Sound and Graphics
• omniglot.com
• - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
• Unicode script chart

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