Punjabi · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Hub 8 verified age-safe resources . A short orientation plus a verified resource table — not a generated essay.
About Punjabi
- Language family
- Indo-European, Indo-Aryan
- Where it's spoken
- The Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan
- Speakers
- roughly 125–150 million speakers, among the most spoken languages in the world
Punjabi is unusual among Indo-Aryan languages for being genuinely tonal, a feature that developed as certain consonant sounds were lost over time and their effect shifted onto pitch instead. It is written in the Gurmukhi script in India (also the script of the Sikh scriptures) and in a Perso-Arabic Shahmukhi script in Pakistan, making it one of the few major languages split across two writing systems along a national border. Its close relatives Hindi and Urdu share much of its core grammar.
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DLI GLOSS (language search)
Search GLOSS for authentic Punjabi reading/listening lessons — coverage varies by language.
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course free | B1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Live Lingua Punjabi course library
Public-domain FSI/Peace Corps course downloads with audio, where available — hub anchor.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |