Learn Punjabi: Punjabi alphabet chart and letters
Learning Punjabi Language
About Punjabi
Punjabi is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of Punjab, and a second official language of Delhi and Haryana. The 2011 Census counted 3.31 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in Gurmukhi in India (Shahmukhi, a Perso-Arabic script, in Pakistan).
Links
To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Punjabi.
- Language Department Punjab: Government of Punjab: Punjabi books, dictionaries and the language's official use
- Punjabi University: Patiala: a state university founded to develop the Punjabi language
- Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Punjabi and the other languages of India
Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.