Punjabi (thing)

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابي / पंजाबी / Panjābī

Some interesting facts about Punjabi:

• Punjabi is a tonal language though this is never expressed in the written language.
• Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) is written in its own script named Gurmukhi (meaning "from the mouth of the Guru") by Sikhs in India and Pakistan.
• Punjabi (پنجابي) is written in a variation of the Urdu/Arabic script named Shahmukhi ("from the mouth of the Shah") by others in Pakistan.
• Punjabi (पंजाबी) is written in devanagari by others in India.
• Punjabi is often spelled panjabi in English, and is more correctly rendered as Panjābī in typical romanizations of Indic languages.

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