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Shahmukhi (Punjabi: شاہ مُکھی, pronounced [ʃäː(ɦ)˦.mʊ.kʰiː], lit. ' from the Shah's or king's mouth '; Gurmukhi: ਸ਼ਾਹਮੁਖੀ) is the right-to-left abjad-based script developed from the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for the Punjabi language varieties, predominantly in Punjab, Pakistan.
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."
Punjabi alphabet. Punjabi alphabet may refer to the: Gurmukhī alphabet, an Indic script. Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Arabic script. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Punjabi is the official language of the Indian state of Punjab, and has the status of an additional official language in Haryanaand Delhi. Some of its major urban centres in northern India are Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ambala, Patiala, Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Firozpurand Delhi. Punjabi in India.
IPA/Punjabi. Help:IPA. This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Punjabi on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Punjabi in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link ...
The Punjabis ( Punjabi: پنجابی ( Shahmukhi); ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ( Gurmukhi); romanised as Panjābī) [ 26][ 27] are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group [ 28] associated with the Punjab region, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India. [ 29] They generally speak Standard Punjabi or various Punjabi dialects on both sides.
Punjabi grammar. Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language native to the region of Punjab of Pakistan and India and spoken by the Punjabi people. This page discusses the grammar of Modern Standard Punjabi as defined by the relevant sources below (see #Further reading ).
History. Routes of ancient scripts of the subcontinent traveling to other parts of Asia (Kharosthi shown in blue) The name Kharosthi may derive from the Hebrew kharosheth, a Semitic word for writing, [ 4] or from Old Iranian *xšaθra-pištra, which means "royal writing". [ 5] The script was earlier also known as Indo-Bactrian script, Kabul ...