Ti '''Punjabi''' ([[ShahmukhiGurmukhi]]: {{lang|pnbpa|{{Nastaliq|پنجابی}}'''ਪੰਜਾਬੀ'''}} {{transl|Punjabi|ALA-LCpa|''paṉjābīpãṉjābī''}}; [[GurmukhiShahmukhi]]: {{lang|papnb|ਪੰਜਾਬੀ{{Nastaliq|پنجابی}}}} {{transl|pa|''pañjābī''ALA-LC|paṉjābī}})<ref name="KachruKachru2008">{{cite book|last1=Kachru|first1=Braj B.|last2=Kachru|first2=Yamuna|last3=Sridhar|first3=S. N.|title=Language in South Asia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=O2n4sFGDEMYC&pg=PA128|accessdate=24 Oktubre 2014|date=27 Marso 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139465502|page=128|quote=Sikhs often write Punjabi in Gurmukhi, Hindus in Devanagari, and Muslims in Perso-Arabic.}}</ref> ket maysa a [[pagsasao nga Indo-Aryano]] nga insasao babaen dagiti 102 a riwriw nga agsasao iti sangalubongan, a mangaramid iti daytoy iti [[Listaan dagiti pagsasao babaen tibilang dagiti patneng a nga agsasao|maika-10 a kaaduan ti agsasao (2015)]] <ref name="NE100X">{{cite web |url=http://www.ne.se/spr%C3%A5k/v%C3%A4rldens-100-st%C3%B6rsta-spr%C3%A5k-2010 |title=Världens 100 största språk 2010 |work=[[Nationalencyklopedin]] |trans_title= The world's 100 largest languages in 2010 |year=2010 |accessdate=12 Pebrero 2014 |language=Sueko}}</ref><ref name=NE2>{{cite web|title=What Are The Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World?|url=http://opishposh.com/the-top-10-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/}}</ref> iti lubong. Daytoy ti patneng a pagsasao dagiti [[tattao a Punjabi]] a nagtataeng iti historikal a [[rehion ti Punjab]] ti [[Pakistan]] ken [[India]]. Daytoy laeng ti sibibiag a pangsasao kadagiti [[sasao nga Indo-Europeano]] a napno a [[paaweng a pagsasao]].<ref>Barbara Lust, James Gair. ''Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages''. Page 637. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. {{ISBN|978-3-11-014388-1}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/gurmuki.htm |title=Punjabi language and the Gurmukhi and Shahmuhi scripts and pronunciation |publisher=Omniglot.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-03}}</ref><ref>[http://www.crulp.org/Publication/Crulp_report/CR02_21E.pdf Phonemic Inventory of Punjabi]</ref><ref>Geeti Sen. ''Crossing Boundaries''. Orient Blackswan, 1997. {{ISBN|978-81-250-1341-9}}. Page 132. Quote: "Possibly, Punjabi is the only major South Asian language that has this kind of tonal character. There does seem to have been some speculation among scholars about the possible origin of Punjabi's tone-language character but without any final and convincing answer..."</ref>
