Languages of Punjabi

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Languages of Punjabi
Punjabi is not just only their race but it is also their spoken language and it is originated around the 11th century and it is the heir of sauraseni prakrit. This language also can be called as Indo-Aryan and this one main language is mostly spoken from about 100 million people that are primarily from the East Punjab which is in India and also in West Punjab which is in Pakistan.
Although both of these two nations speak in the same language but they have different ways and form of writing the alphabet. For example, In India Punjabi, normally it is written using the Gurmukhi alphabet, On the other hand, while the Punjabi in Pakistan, generally it is written with a different version which is called the Urdu alphabet also can be known as the Shahmukhi. Nevertheless, both of these two nations of India as well as Pakistan has a standard way of writing Punjabi and it is known as the Majhi, which is named that comes after the region of Majha.
Now here is some information of background of the Gurmukhi alphabet. The Gurmukhi alphabet is an alphabet that was established a...

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