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Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
Also, Urdu having become a minority language in India—in my view—requires us to note the pressures brought to bear on it by India's Hindi/Hindu-dominated majoritarian culture, whether by being redefined (e.g. "the language of Bollywood songs is really Urdu") or by its dissemination being controlled (e.g. "we cannot really fund Urdu ...
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Quotation marks may be used to indicate that the meaning of the word or phrase they surround should be taken to be different from (or, at least, a modification of) that typically associated with it, and are often used in this way to express irony (for example, in the sentence 'The lunch lady plopped a glob of "food" onto my tray.' the quotation ...