pa
Technical information about ISO 639 language code pa
The table below provides technical details for the Panjabi language, designated by the pa
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Panjabi, also known as Punjabi, belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically the Indo-Aryan subgroup. It is one of the official languages of the state of Punjab in India and is also spoken by Punjabi communities in Haryana, Delhi, and West Bengal in India, and in parts of Pakistan. It is primarily written using the Gurmukhi script, and the Shahmukhi script is used in Pakistan. It is estimated that there are more than 110 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Panjabi speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
pa-Arab
– Panjabi (Arabic)
pa-Arab-PK
– Panjabi (Arabic, Pakistan)
pa-Guru
– Panjabi (Gurmukhi)
pa-Guru-IN
– Panjabi (Gurmukhi, India)
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