Khoj, Institute of Punjabi and Cultural Studies, PU - Lahore

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Institute of Punjabi & Cultural Studies, Punjab University, Lahore
ISSN (print): 1992-6545
ISSN (online): 1992-6545
Abstract

In his 14 points on the vernacular language, the author establishes his thesis that the language in currency (= lingua franka) in the Indo-Pak region is actually Punjabi since the region is historically known by this name, and its' written form is known as Hindi in India and Urdu in Pakistan. He builds his point of view on the threshold of regional survey while defining the Punjab territory and on the quantum of scripts'  commonlty and language typology (SVO), and agrees that the Hindi has its specific script viz Devanagari, Urdu has Indo-Perso-Arabic (to which he names as HindFarBi), and the Punjabi has Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi. He argues that the conventional script of Urdu is rapidly decaying but there's no such danger to the scripts specific to Punjabi.

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Type: Article
Volume: 42
Issue: 2
Language: eng
Id: 63805e794a99e
Discipline: Y
Published October 06, 2022

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