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The prevalent view among Punjabi linguists is that as in the early stages the Gurmukhī letters were primarily used by the Guru's followers, gurmukhs (literally, those who face, or follow, the Guru, as opposed to a manmukh); the script thus came to be known as gurmukhī, "the script of those guided by the Guru."
Shahmukhi (Punjabi: شاہ مُکھی, pronounced [ʃäː(ɦ)˦.mʊ.kʰiː], lit. ' from the king's mouth ') is the right-to-left alphabet, developed from the Perso-Arabic script, used for the Punjabi language varieties, predominantly in Pakistan.
In India, Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhī script in offices, schools, and media. Gurmukhi is the official standard script for Punjabi, though it is often unofficially written in the Latin scripts due to influence from English, one of India's two primary official languages at the Union-level.
In matters of script, Punjabi uses Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi.On this grammar page Punjabi is written in "standard orientalist" transcription as outlined in Masica (1991:xv) (with one change; representing ai /ɛː/ and au /ɔː/ with ē and ō respectively).
The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script in various languages including Punjabi, Lahnda, regional Prakrits, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Hindi languages (Braj Bhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian and Arabic. Copies in these languages often have the generic title of Sant Bhasha. [9]
Punjabi literature, specifically literary works written in the Punjabi language, is characteristic of the historical Punjab of present-day Pakistan and India and the Punjabi diaspora. The Punjabi language is written in several scripts, of which the Shahmukhi and Gurmukhī scripts are the most commonly used in Western Punjab and Eastern Punjab ...
The literary works, including Punjabi poetry were collected from different private and public libraries across major cities of Punjab such as Patiala, Bathinda, Ludhiana, including Punjab's capital Chandigarh. Its name was created by combining Gurmukhi (Punjabi script of Indian Punjab) and Shahmukhi (Punjabi script of Pakistani Punjab). [5]
The Punjabi Wikipedia (Punjabi: پنجابی وکیپیڈیا ; ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ ) is the Punjabi language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] There are two Punjabi Wikipedia editions, the Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia (in Gurmukhi script) and Western Punjabi Wikipedia (in Shahmukhi script).