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* [http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/staff/commsmaterials2#patleaf Choose and Book: Introduction]. "{{Heavy quotes|A [UK] national electronic referral service which gives patients a choice of place, date and time for their first outpatient appointment in a hospital or clinic.}} PDF, [[#Gurbani|Gurbani]] encoding.
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* [http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk/staff/commsmaterials2#patleaf Choose and Book: Introduction]. {{Heavy quotes|A [UK] national electronic referral service which gives patients a choice of place, date and time for their first outpatient appointment in a hospital or clinic.}} PDF, [[#Gurbani|Gurbani]] encoding.
* [http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/langdoc.html Domestic Violence Information]. Leaflets from various agencies in many languages. Unicode.
* [http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/langdoc.html Domestic Violence Information]. Leaflets from various agencies in many languages. Unicode.
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* [http://www.zeetvusa.com/aboutus.asp Alpha ETC Punjabi]: [http://www.zeetvusa.com/zeealpha/zeealpha.asp Programmes], [http://www.zeetvusa.com/zeealpha/zalpha_sch.asp Schedule] <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
* [http://www.zeetvusa.com/aboutus.asp Alpha ETC Punjabi]: [http://www.zeetvusa.com/zeealpha/zeealpha.asp Programmes], [http://www.zeetvusa.com/zeealpha/zalpha_sch.asp Schedule] <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.apna.tv/news/text_pages77.asp?item=introo APNA Channel] "is a satellite channel broadcasting from Thailand, and is envisaged as a news channel telecasting in Punjabi language, internationally footage to be in 127 countries." (Website appears to be mostly in English. News is all English text feeds. Video programming is apparently Panjabi with [[#Writing|Shahmukhi]] titles.) <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.apna.tv/news/text_pages77.asp?item=introo APNA Channel] {{Heavy quotes|is a satellite channel broadcasting from Thailand, and is envisaged as a news channel telecasting in Punjabi language, internationally footage to be in 127 countries.}} (Website appears to be mostly in English. News is all English text feeds. Video programming is apparently Panjabi with [[#Writing|Shahmukhi]] titles.) <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.aapnatv.com/about.htm Awaaz-E-Watan] ("voice of the homeland"). 1 hour per week. Cable channels in Fresno, CA and vicinity. <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.aapnatv.com/about.htm Awaaz-E-Watan] ({{Heavy quotes|voice of the homeland}}). 1 hour per week. Cable channels in Fresno, CA and vicinity. <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.channelpunjabi.ca/ Channel Punjabi Television] (Canada). "music, concerts, television shows and ringtones". <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.channelpunjabi.ca/ Channel Punjabi Television] (Canada). {{Heavy quotes|music, concerts, television shows and ringtones}}. <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
* [http://www.ddkjalandhar.com/fact2007/dd_punjabi_channel_02.html DD-Punjabi Channel], Broadcasting Corporation of India. [http://www.ddkjalandhar.com/fpc_chart/index.html Schedule].
* [http://www.ddkjalandhar.com/fact2007/dd_punjabi_channel_02.html DD-Punjabi Channel], Broadcasting Corporation of India. [http://www.ddkjalandhar.com/fpc_chart/index.html Schedule].
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* [http://www.juspunjabi.com/ Jus Punjabi]: "1st American Punjabi Channel"
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* [http://www.juspunjabi.com/ Jus Punjabi]: {{Heavy quotes|1st American Punjabi Channel}}
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* [http://www.indianetzone.com/4/mh_1.htm MH1]: music. "also contemplating to start a Hindi music and entertainment channel. ... also plans to introduce a medical channel [that] would primarily cater to Punjab. (19/01/2009)" <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.indianetzone.com/4/mh_1.htm MH1]: music. {{Heavy quotes|also contemplating to start a Hindi music and entertainment channel. ... also plans to introduce a medical channel [that] would primarily cater to Punjab. (19/01/2009)}} <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.jumptv.com/en/channel/punjabitoday/ Punjab Today]: "the leading 24-hour Punjabi news channel... It offers varied programming content such as Bollywood gossip, politics, and heritage and culture." <small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.jumptv.com/en/channel/punjabitoday/ Punjab Today]: {{Heavy quotes|the leading 24-hour Punjabi news channel... It offers varied programming content such as Bollywood gossip, politics, and heritage and culture.}}<small>''[2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.ravitelevision.com/ RAVi TV]: US, "programmed by and for Punjabi natives residing in the United States". "Live streaming is temporarily disabled due to signal piracy by unauthorized websites. We will resume Ravi feed in few days after implementing new security system for the website." <small>''[2009-07-6; same message 2009-07-23]''</small>
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* [http://www.ravitelevision.com/ RAVi TV]: US, {{Heavy quotes|programmed by and for Punjabi natives residing in the United States}}.  
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** Not clear what services this site still offers, if any: {{Heavy quotes|Live streaming is temporarily disabled due to signal piracy by unauthorized websites. We will resume Ravi feed in few days after implementing new security system for the website.}} {{Heavy quotes|© Copyright 2007}} <small>''[2009-07-6; same message 2010-05-13]''</small>
* [http://www.sikhvideos.org/ Sikh Videos]
* [http://www.sikhvideos.org/ Sikh Videos]

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ਪੰਜਾਬੀ


PANJABI


(Eastern Panjabi, Gurmukhi)


Contents

General

This document pertains primarily to Eastern Panjabi (Gurmukhi). There is some material on Western Panjabi as well.

Dialects

Eastern Panjabi

(Information from Ethnologue, 2009-05-13)

  • ISO 639-3 code: pan
  • Spoken in: India: Punjab, Majhi in Gurdaspur and Amritsar districts, Bhatyiana in South Firozpur District; Rajasthan, Bhatyiana in north Ganganagar District; Haryana; Delhi; Jammu and Kashmir. Also spoken in Bangladesh and diaspora.
  • Population: 27,109,000 in India
  • Alternate names: Punjabi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi
  • Dialects: Panjabi Proper, Majhi, Doab, Bhatyiana (Bhatneri, Bhatti), Powadhi, Malwa, Bathi. Western Panjabi is distinct from Eastern Panjabi, although there is a chain of dialects to Western Hindi (Urdu).
  • Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Panjabi
  • Script: Gur(u)mukhi and Devanagari

Western Panjabi

Information from Ethnologue, 2009-05-13

  • ISO 639-3 code: pnb
  • Spoken in: Mainly in the Punjab area of Pakistan.
  • Population: 60,647,207 in Pakistan (2000 WCD).
  • Alternate names: Western Punjabi, Lahnda, Lahanda, Lahndi
  • Dialects: There is a continuum of varieties between Eastern and Western Panjabi, and with Western Hindi and Urdu. 'Lahnda' is a name given earlier for Western Panjabi; an attempt to cover the dialect continuum between Hindko, Pahari-Potwari, and Western Panjabi in the north and Sindhi in the south.
  • Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern zone, Lahnda
  • Script: Perso-Arabic


Linguistic notes

Writing

Eastern Panjabi is usually written with the Brahmi-derived Gurmukhi script, and sometimes, especially by Hindus, with Devanagari. Western Panjabi is usually written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic writing system very similar to the writing system of Urdu.

Linguistic resources

Grammars

Lexicons

Names

These sites do not distinguish names by sex.

  • 5abi: Gurbani encoding.
  • Babynology: List of Panjabi baby names in Roman transliteration. (Each name appears twice, once for each sex, since the site's general format is to list male and female names separately.)
  • Sikh Names. Transliteration, with meanings.
  • Sushmajee: About 1000 names. Transliteration.

Linguistic portals and bibliographies

Encoding and Fonts

Before the development and general use of Unicode, computer use of Panjabi and other South Asian languages required special fonts using only one byte. Many of these fonts were specific to one website or another and used idiosyncratic encodings. To some extent that is still the case; and so this page includes some such sites (see News), and some resources for specific fonts and encoding converters.

Encodings

Unicode

The Unicode range for Gurmukhi is 0A00-0A7F.

ISCII

The Bureau of Indian Standards supports its own encoding standard. See ISCII.

Gurbani

An 8-bit encoding used by a number of sites. Most of the script is in the lower half. Fonts available from SikhNet below.

Satluj

An 8-bit encoding, with the script in the upper half; x20-x7f is used for punctuation, special characters, digits (both Western and Panjabi), and so on. Used by Daily Ajit, Awandhar. Font available from Sikh Students Federation below.

Fonts

Conversion

  • GUCA: Gurmukhi Unicode Conversion Application. GNU GPL. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework. Converts ASCII encoded, font-based Gurmukhi text based on Dr. Thind's fonts (e.g. AnmolLipi, GurbaniLipi fonts) into Unicode. Also includes a custom mapping engine to add encodings. -- Although the site for "Dr. Thind's fonts" now uses Unicode, many other sites still use these 8-bit encodings. See SikhNet, above.
  • Unicodify: From Lancaster University, producers of the Emille corpus. For Windows; source code available.

Transliteration

  • Indian Language Converter. Type in Roman characters according to the Gurmukhi character chart on the page and get Gurmukhi text and HTML. On-web or download with GNU GPL. E.g.:
    Roman input: guramukhee
    Gurmukhi output: ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ
    HTML output: &#2583;&#2625;&#2608;&#2606;&#2625;&#2582;&#2624;<br/>

Data Sources

Monolingual Text

News

Other

Parallel Text

Civic information and advice

  • EMILLE corpus. 200,000 words of text in English (information leaflets from the UK Government and various local authorities) with Eastern Panjabi translation. Free license for non-profit research use.

IT

  • GUCA. Panjabi computing resource website that is parallel English and Panjabi

Religious: Christian

  • Bible. Amazon.com links for print editions.
  • Religious Passages from Cloverdale Bibleway Church: Nine sermons of William Marrion Branham. Apparently a non-Gurbani Latin encoding. PDF 350-645 kB (mean 431), est. 150k words. Paginated printing and binding, 2-up and 2-sided [pp. 0+1,2+23; 22+3,4+21; 20+5,6+19...]. Panjabi, English

Religious: Sikh

  • Guru Granth Sahib. Sikh holy texts, word lists, concordances, interlinear translations. Panjabi (Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi, Devanagari) and English. Some files Unicode, but some Gurbani encoding.
  • Punjabi Online: Mool Mantar. Religious text. Interlinear, with Panjabi in Gurbani encoding, grouped as (Panjabi1, transliteration1, Panjabi2, English). Panjabi2, may be commentary on Panjabi1, and only the commentary translated.
  • Sridasam. Religious text. 2326 pages. Unicode. Parallel text verse by verse: Panjabi and Hindi apparently complete, English translation only through p. 1466. [2009-07-23]

Video

Portals

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