Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Hindi Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Pothohari
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Pakistan
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 2
Saraiki
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Doabi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million
  
12
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
100.00 million
  
11
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million
  
12
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
  
Russki
  
French Name
pendjabi
  
russe
  
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Availble
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Punjabis
  
Russians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pa
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
pan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
pan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
panj1256
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic