Punjabi Language

Indo-Aryan language with over 156 million speakers, written in Gurmukhi script in India and Shahmukhi script in Pakistan.

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With over 156 million speakers across all its varieties, Punjabi is the seventh most spoken native language.
It is written in two standard scripts: Shahmukhi, based on Perso-Arabic, in Pakistan, and Gurmukhi in India.
Its earliest writings are traced to the Nath jogis of the Pothohar Plateau in the 9th century.