Punjabi

Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی Pañjābī
Spoken in:	Pakistan (80 million speakers) India (30 million speakers) UK, USA, Canada and other countries with Punjabi migrants
Region:	Punjab
Total speakers:	Western: 61-62 million Eastern: 28 million Siraiki: 14 million Total: 104 million
Ranking:	10-14
Language family:	Indo-European  Indo-Iranian   Indo-Aryan    Punjabi
Writing system:	Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Official status
Official language of:	Punjab (India), Haryana, Amritsar, Chandigarh and Delhi
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	pa
ISO 639-2:	pan
ISO 639-3:	variously: pan — Punjabi (Eastern) pnb — Punjabi (Western) pmu — Punjabi (Mirpuri) lah — Lahndi
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Punjabi (also Panjabi; ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhī, پنجابی in Shāhmukhī, Pañjābī in transliteration) is the language of the Punjabi people and the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan.

It is an Indo-European language within the Indic branch of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. Unusually for an Indo-European language, Punjabi is tonal; the tones arose as a reinterpretation of different consonant series in terms of pitch. In terms of morphological complexity, it is an agglutinative language (also very unusual for an Indo-European language, most of which are inflecting) and words are usually ordered 'Subject Object Verb'.

The Punjabi people suffered a split between India and Pakistan during the Partition of 1947. Punjabi is also one of the several languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent.