salaam.....wassup....ki haal chaal ay?kiddaaaaaa?baal bachay theek a???.....lol.........i think theres nothin to b asahmed of if ur talkin in punjabi....both my parents r punjabi...me n my siblings all of us can understand punjabi although we prefer to speak in urdu/english with each other..........my parents talk in punjabi with each other...or when their yellin at us...........nd punjabi is only rude when ur swearin in the language.......as a matter of fact any language wud b considered rude if u were swearin in it.... ....so i dun c none wrong with PUNJABI!!!!!

lolz
i was thinking yeah
theres loads of diffrent ways of chattin in punjabi

like mirpuri talk like diz "Tusa tusa itya ehticya"
Majjars talk like diz "kida ke hal ya"

and i talk like diz " Tusi teek ho"

now i would feel ashmed speakin mirpuri and majjars

da way i chat is gr8

P@GS it all depends on which area ya comin from

The language u speak @ home is wot yur gonna describe as normal if ya hear sum1 else its gonna seem weird

yeah thats it area i never knew how to put it lolzzz

well i gotta say da way one speaks dey wont feel ashmed cz thats what dey are yeah

lolz all i know its mirpuri

Gurkmukhi is not an ancient language as described by some on this forum..It is rather a script developed during 15th century so as to give sikhs a different script of punjabi which would be diff from the persian/arabic script used by muslims from centries..That later became known as shahmukhi or the script of muslims...I was told by a punjabi hisorian that the punjabi spoken my muslims has a different origin then the sikhs punjabi.punjabi spoken by sikhs evolved from the ancient "palki" indo-aryan language.....

man i dont thnk it's dying. dat lang is way too superiror 2 oder's lang;s in de wrld *proud* ne how!
i lub punjabi..hehe...although i cant speak it very well but whn eva i do i sound so funny n weird speakin it

so tusi sunao ji!! kee pe karne hoo aj kul

we are proud to be punjabi
but i don't know about u guys, sound like u guys dont' like it
well then dont' worry about punjabi we will promise u that we won't let that sexy language die

jado jawani wala jor se we jalma
wanjli warga bol se ve jalma

MJ I don;t see how you or others like you can sit there and rubbish the language like that, it was there or version of it b4 the moghuls, b4 the british raj and b4 the partition (as others)- and its still the most widely spoken of all the regional languages, surely that commands it's own respect. As said by others there is pools of punjabi literature, history which you probably you aren't even fully aware and appreciative of, to make such statements.

it would be a boring place without punjabi, or any of the other 'non formal' tongues

yeh P@GS , some of the dialects are soo different form each other.. i speak the ''hoonda hega assi tussi'' kinda punjabi and was at my friends wedding and she's from up north, kashmiri and they were all speaking the ''assa tussa'' type...i got most of what they were saying, but then some of what they were saying amongst themselves just flew over my head ...hey where's the shame?

lol sikhmunda...err goodluck in your mission

zulfan si meriyan katavan kor kaaliyan
mehk dissi ang cho gulaab diya daaliyan
lang di mein jitthon penda shor si'o jalma

i gotta say urdu is soOOoooOOo POoOooSZH NOOoOOt heheheheh

heheh yeaha man mirpuriizzzz
lolzzzz

tusaaaa te assaaa

Last i checked this was General Issues and Questions Section, and *not* General Section!

Please stick to the topic and drop idle one-liners! This Forum is solely aimed at an intelectual and mature insight!

punjabi deserved all its respect and in pakistani schools each province should have classes in punjabi if you are in punjab baluchi if in baluch and all... and then the urdu becoming the second language couse we use our ethnic language more than urdu. and beside it wont get difficult. if sutdents can learn arabic then two languages aint difficult

by the way, punjabi culture and punjabi language ROCKS OEEEEEEEEEEE

Assalam O Alaikum

I dont know what the fuss is about... I mean just come to the UK and see, Punjabi is thriving like anything! LOL ......

just keep in mind that statistical number are just numbers.. what they mean in real life is another matter.. so stop worring and get on with your lives!

Allah Hafiz

I agree with Juna Bhai.

Coming to address Morg, now-a-days many punjabi households have adopted Urdu as a standard language. I think preserving one's ethnic language is as important as anything else, however, by making Urdu a secondary language raises the question of National Sovereignity.

I'm Udru Speaker but I think Panjabi is a fun language to learn and after all majority of Pakistanis speak this language and there is nothing wrong if people speak any regional language. Not to mention the fact that my family members love Persian, and Sindhi literature, my father was top notch in Farsi literature... Hal-e-shoma che towreh MuziqPakistan, Shoma Agha-ye MuziqPakistani hastid?

Punjabi has lots of different "variants"

If u go from the North where peeps speak punjabi in a total different way to the ppl of Lahore.

You'll still comprehend each other...it's a matter of dialect. Actually, you aren't too far off, Siraiki is a lot different than Punjabi spoken in Urban Lahore... not to mention the hardcore Rural Punjabi

In which cases Urdu is more conveniant because it is a "standard" language.

Don't get me rong though I speak Punjabi all the time

there are different dialekts yes
and thats so great about this language you acutally speak as you live, a farmer with behans and some zameens will speak the more harsh and thok punjabi , while a punjabi living between kashmir and sialkot in the mountain areas will speak something differently...


and luxor
yes it makes worry
but rather think on this
we are a nation of muslims
our national language is urdu
then why the .... do mussharaff read the oath of presidency on english.. you c urdu is too fading.. in the daily life, usind english in military dont make sence, while in business we need it

Punjabi is a passionate language.... when it wants to be offensive its very offensive but when words of love are spoken it can be very poetic... emotions are expressed better i.e. if you know the language well..

I cant speak punjabi... (although my mother is from punjab), and i am not one bit ashamed of it... i am proud of my half punjbai roots.

I cant speak and if i try... everyone just tells me to shut up cause i am really bad at pronouncing stuff... you really have to twitch your tongue... nevertheless all of you will agree its a fun language

9 out of 10 people will laugh if a masti punjabi sentence is spoken in an urdu speaking conversation... rite? (i.e. if you understand)

well whateva u guyz say
but u gotta admit it Punjabi is worldwide famous and punjabi dance Bhangra as well thats all cuz of Punjabi muziq by Abrar (the only pakistani singer who sings it right) and other sikh singers from india
I am a Proud to be a Punjabi
Chak de Pathey