| Punjabi Languge | ||
|---|---|---|
| ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, पंजाबी, پنجابی, Pañjābī | ||
| The word "Punjabi" in Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi and Devanagari |  | |
| Spoken in | Pakistan and India. Minor populations in United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, United Arab Emirates, United States | |
| Region | Punjab | |
| Total speakers | 88,000,000 (Ethnologue 2005 estimate) 57,129,000 (Encarta) Western Punjabi: 61–62 million, Eastern Punjabi 28 million (2000 WCD) | |
| Ranking | 11 | |
| Language family | Indo-European
| |
| Writing system | Gurmukhi in Punjab (India) and Sikh diaspora Shahmukhi in Punjab (Pakistan) and Sarhad Devanagari in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Punjabi Hindu diaspora) | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in |  India Pakistan (Punjab) [provincial] | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | pa | |
| ISO 639-2 | pan | |
| ISO 639-3 | pan – Punjabi (Eastern) | |
| Linguasphere | ||
| By http://pphub.blogspot.com/ |
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