Language code: 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.

Code

pa

Name

Official

Panjabi

Native

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Family
Indo-Aryan
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
MajhiDoabiMalwaiPowadhiPothwariShahpuriJhangochiDhani
Related languages
SaraikiDogriSindhiHindiUrdu
Key facts
Punjabi is written in two major scripts—Gurmukhi in India and Shahmukhi in Pakistanit is one of the very few Indo-Aryan languages that are truly tonalthe earliest known Punjabi poet is Baba Farid from the 12th–13th centuryPunjabi folk music forms like Bhangra and Giddha have influenced global popular musicits vocabulary shows extensive borrowing from Persian and Arabic due to centuries of cultural contact
Sample phrase

ਸਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ, ਤੁਸੀਂ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਹੋ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Panjabi speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

pa-Arab Panjabi (Arabic)

pa-Arab-PK Panjabi (Arabic, Pakistan)

pa-Guru Panjabi (Gurmukhi)

pa-Guru-IN Panjabi (Gurmukhi, India)

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