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What is the official language in Punjab?
What is the official language in Punjab?
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Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Punjabi people in Pakistan and the Punjab region of India. Punjabi is the world's 9th most commonly spoken language. Punjabi is the most frequently spoken language in Pakistan, India's 11th most generally spoken language, and the third most widely spoken native language in the Indian Subcontinent. Punjabi is England's 3th most spoken language and Canada's 5th most used native language. It is also well-represented in the UAE, the US, France, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Its native speakers are around 113 million. In Pakistan,
Punjabi is spoken by 80.05 million people. Punjabi is the regional language of Pakistan's Punjab province, but it lacks a formal position at the state scale. Punjabi is an official language of the Punjab state and is spoken by 31.1 million people in India (as of 2011). The language is spoken by a substantial
international diaspora, mostly in Canada, the U.s., and the U.k.
Punjabi
is written in the Shahmukhi script in Pakistan, whereas Gurmukhi is used in India. The usage of lexical tone in Punjabi is unique within Indo-Aryan languages (and Indo-European languages in general).