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6 unusual facts about Punjabi language


City of Coffs Harbour

A significant exception was that households in the Coffs Harbour local government area where Punjabi was spoken was three times the national average.

Ghallooghaaraa

Ghallooghaaraa is the Punjabi word for a holocaust, massacre, great destruction, deluge, genocide or slaughter.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School

Enrolling 350 students from Kindergarten through Grade Seven, approximately half the students speak Punjabi at home.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Sonalee Kulkarni

Sonalee speaks fluent Hindi, Marathi, English and Punjabi, although she faced some difficulty with Marathi while performing in her first Marathi film Bakula Namdev Ghotale.

Woolgoolga, New South Wales

Notably, from the Census data, 653 persons (12.9%) speak Punjabi at home, 661 persons practice Sikhism, and 409 persons (8.1%) were born in India.


Buttar Kalan, Gurdaspur

Punjabi is the primary language of the village, predominated by the Jatt people of Buttar clan.

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

Although the magazine’s philosophy has always been to offer information in the languages of the marketplace in Canada, their website also offers multilingual editions (available in .pdf format) in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Korean.

Choor Singh

As Chairman of the Sikh Advisory Board, he persuaded the Government to allow the use of government school buildings for the teaching of the Punjabi language.

CJVF-FM

The license to the station was granted by the CRTC on December 7, 2011, with the stiplulation that its programming consist of 60% Tamil, 20% Punjabi, 10% Filipino, and 10% English language programming.

Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.

Ek Thi Ladki

This was the movie which had the famous Punjabi song "'Laara Lappa Laara Lappa Layi Rakhda" by Lata Mangeshkar, G. M. Durrani and Mohammad Rafi.

Gandhara

Semitic scripts were not used to write South Asian languages again until the arrival of Islam and subsequent adoption of the Persian-style Arabic alphabet for New Indo-Aryan languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Kashmiri.

Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Malout

Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa Senior Secondary School (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ਼ ਬਹਾਦੁਰ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ ਸੀਨੀਅਰ ਸੈਕੰਡਰੀ ਸਕੂਲ gurū tēg. bahādur kh.ālasā sīnīar saika°ḍarī sakūl) is in the city of Malout in the Punjab state of India.

Hindustan Ghadar

The Hindustan Ghadar (Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान ग़दर, Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ ਗ਼ਦਰ, Urdu: ہِندُوستان غدر) was a weekly publication that was the party organ of the Ghadar Party.

Jatt Jeona Morh

Jatt Jeona Morh, released in 1991, is a Punjabi film starring Gugu Gill and Gurkirtan.

Kalikwest Connected Vol.1

Kalikwest Connected Vol.1 is an album released on February 10, 2012, by popular Punjabi music artists, such as Sukhwinder Panchhi, Kuldeep Manak, Manjit Pappu, Bhinda Jatt, Sukhdev Sukha, Inder Kooner, Bal-E Lasara, and Harleen Singh.

Khoa

Khoa (Punjabi: ਖੋਆ, Nepali:खुवा, also khoo-wah) is a dairy product widely used in Nepal, Indian and Pakistani cuisine, made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating in an open iron pan.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid

He mastered Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Saraiki, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Braj Bhasha, and also wrote poems in Saraiki, Punjabi, Urdu, Sindhi, Persian, and Braj Bhasha.

Mirza – The Untold Story

Mirza: The Untold Story (Punjabi: ਮਿਰਜ਼ਾ- ਦਿ ਅਨਟੋਲਡ ਸਟੋਰੀ) is a Punjabi action romance film written and directed by Baljit Singh Deo.

Northwestern India

The region has more than nine languages and sub-languages like Dogri, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi.

Paisaci

The influence of Paisachi over Konkani can be proved from the findings of Dr. Taraporewala who, in his book Elements of Science of Languages, Calcutta University,he ascertains that Konkani shows many Dardic features which are found in present day Kashmiri and Punjabi.

Shah Mohammad

Shah Mohammad (1780–1862) was a Punjabi poet who lived during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and is best known for Jangnama— a colossal work that gave an eyewitness account of the First Anglo-Sikh War that took place after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Shiv Kumar Batalvi

Punjabi folk singer, Hans Raj Hans also did a popular album, ‘Gham’, on the poetry of Shiv Kumar.

Sufi rock

It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets like Rumi, Hafez, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.

Veronica Mehta

Veronica (born Veronica Mehta) is an Indian R&B singer based in London, UK, who sings in Hindi, Urdu, English and Punjabi.


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Anhe Ghore Da Daan

In the regional category (Punjabi language) it was given another award for best film in 59th National Film Awards.

Lehal

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal is a professor at Punjabi University, Patiala, and is credited with designing Punjabi language software that enables users to utilise the language with computers.

Shareef Kunjahi

It was through his translations in Punjabi of two books of Bertrand Russell and Allama Iqbal’s lectures — ‘Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts’ — among the numerous other translations, that he demonstrated that Punjabi language is capable of eloquently communicating even the most complex philosophical thoughts.