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title: "What is the official language in Punjab?"  
description: "What is the official language in Punjab?"  
author: "Pradeep Agnihotri"  
published: 2018-06-16  
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# What is the official language in Punjab?

What is the [official language](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34021/in-india-which-state-or-union-territory-has-french-as-an-official-language) in Punjab?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

Punjabi is an **Indo-Aryan** [language](https://www.mindstick.com/startup/28/preply-the-fast-growing-platform-transforming-language-learning) 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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94169/which-is-the-first-indian-communication-satellite) 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.

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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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93540/is-kidszone-different-from-official-mindstick) 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](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94203/who-elected-the-judges-of-the-international-court-of-justice) 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).


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