Origins & Struggle: The Punjabi Language in Punjab (URDU/HINDI) 

I am proud to be Punjabi. And proudly I can read Punjabi in both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi

You are educating our generation about nationalism which we had forgotten. Your inspiration for revival of our language will be remembered ❤ Keep it up

Punjabi in fact is the most beautiful and simple language in the world. I was in a huge concert the other day, and 30% of the crowd was non Punjabi and foreigners. I have lot of "Punjabi" friends from Pakistan. While they talk with me in Punjabi, their children and their families overall speak Urdu ( some of them with heavy Punjabi accent) Appreciate your efforts for taking up the Punjabi "project' in Pakistan on your shows.

پنج نَد ۔ پانچ دریاؤں والا ۔ مغربی پاکستان کا وہ مقام جہاں پانچ دریا ملتے ہیں ۔

Alhamdulillah Proud to be Punjabi Sadi Language Punjabi

You are doing excellent job in recollecting rich heritage of Panjab. God bless your endeavours.

Punjabi is one of the sweetest Laanguage in World🥰🥰🥰

I'm pakistani punjabi and speak Majha dialect. Punjabi is my pehchan not urdu

دھلی سے پشاور تک کا علاقہ اور زمین پنجاب ھے ،

Punjabi jindabaaaad❤

Punjabi Juban was deliberately put down by the Mughals who were attackers , outsiders and has nothing to do with common people !!! They just made a link language to use in their Darbsrs and elite officials . Common people were communicating with their local language Punjabi . Maharaja Ranjit Singh who was a secular ruler did not got bother by the Farsi which was a normal official language , he kept it as it is . Other point you talk about the poetry by the Muslim poets before Guru Nanak Dev ji , I would say if the poetry was this refined in Punjabi then that mean Punjabi language was a very developed language and been spoken and refined for long long time ago !!! Whatever happening now with Punjabi in Pakistan was happening from a century ago too . The difference is that there are more people in the schools than a century ago . Punjabi was a social language when schools were only for the elites . Now all the common people are in Schools no one made attempt to take their mother language to school also , this is what happened that Punjabi did not get its proper place in Pakistani Punjab!!!! The eastern Punjab prominently Sikhs they fought for their mother tongue with their teeth and nails and still fighting to give its proper place !!!

Mostly, Punjabi Language is Spoken in East ➡️ and West ⬅️ Punjab.

میشا آپ پنجابی کے بڑے بڑے پلر Pilar’s کا زکر کرنا بھول گئ ہو جیسے کہ پیر وارث شاہ غلام فرید بابا بلھے شاہ ، شاہ حسین المعروف مادھو لال حسین وغیرہ Ehsanukhan from. Virginia

Punjabi is one of the most important and Remarkable, Language of South Asia 🌏 after Urdu Language.

Mesha ji,Theek hai aap Punjabi ke liye baat kar Rahi Hain lekin aap Urdu mein hi baat kar Rahi Hain,yeh adhuri koshish jaisi lag Rahi hai.Aapko khud is sab ko Punjabi mein kahna chahiye.Ummid hai next video Punjabi mein Laker aaoge.Aapki presentation acchhi hai,aap Punjabi soch vaale aavam ko saath lekar kadam aage badhayen.

Punjabi will be brand and Punjabis working on it. Punjabis will proud of it one day. Mark my comment.

پنجابی ، & پنجاب زندہ باد @ Punjabi thy Punjabi Zenda Bad ❣️🇵🇰❣️

Wonderful to know great facts from your research and your channel, thank you Ji, I enjoy Punjabi language and culture and proud of being a Punjabi from San Francisco now, wishing well to all

Wonderful Summary but please include the fantastic Punjabi poetry of Waris Shah ,Baba Bulleh Shah and others who are the jewels of Punjabi heritage. Thanks again. Please do continue your grwat work.

Punjabi language is natural . It comes out of prosper hearts . It is the mother of many languages. We proud of Punjabi. ❤

Madam your way of talking and explaining is very impressive.

Not Punjabi, but another Indian language Tamil is the oldest living language in the world. But amongst the classical languages Sanskrit is probably the oldest, if we reckon Rigveda being composed around 4000-3500 B.C. Except for the South Indian Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, rest of the Indian languages including Punjabi come out of the Sanskritic Prakrit or Apbhransha during the period 500-1000 A.D.. including Punjabi. Urdu is the youngest Indian language born only in the 17th century whose grammar and syntax is the same as that of Hindi. We may say that Hindi and Urdu are two names of the same language.

Punjabi is 5500 years old and Sanskrit is 3,500 years -- Punjabi is oldest language, it is our ancestor's language

We are proud of being Punjabi. Please make documentary on how Britishers took Punjab from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's son/grandson.. thanks

One of the ancient languages sweetest, comprehensive, language of love, to know the true punjabi punjabi, one needs to study Our great sufies poets Baba Ji Farid, Baba Bulay shah Ji,Mian Mohammed Bhukhsh

اُردُو (مُذکّر) لشکر ۔ لشکرگاہ (مُؤنث) پاک وہند کی وہ زبان جو مُختلِف زبانوں سے مِل کر بنی ہے ۔ لشکری زبان ۔

Yor.s commentary reflects command on the history of Indian languages , and having very impressive personality

Punjabi is safe in India and is taught in schools. However Shahmukhi, the language I love, is the one that’s been rejected by Pakistani elite. That’s a great loss for both India and Pakistan.

@ I Like Punjabi Language too much, ❤️. From Dr Afzal Samad Karachi Pakistan.

Dr Turab ul haq Saragana's book "Panjab and the war of independence 1857" and Shafaqat Tanveer Mirza's book "Resistance themes in Panjabi literature" are highly recommended

Bahut hi achhi jankari beta khush rahe from Toronto canada

we need series of information,,, thank for educating us about us ,, Allah bless you 💚💚

Letting people know about the history is good and I would appreciate if you could start speaking Punjabi as well, see you have reached at a point in life where you do not have much to lose in terms of career opportunities based on ethnicity or language you have acquired all the skills and adding another language to your resume would be a plus.

Congratulations and best wishes for your efforts. Thanks.

Punjabis have "Baghi" blood they will fight against any injustice regardless of any race religion or ethnicity, it wasn't just the English all the forigen rullers of this land tried to impose their language so the Punjabis can forget their true culture and identity, not just the Sikhs but all Punjabis it effects Sikhs more because almost all Sikhs are Punjabis, currently Indian and Pakistan state are doing the same, unfortunately they use Punjabis to do their dirty work, Punjabis need to read about Guru Baba Nanak Dev ji to know and understand their true identity, it was Guru Baba Nanak Dev ji who collected and saved the revolutionary words of Baba Farid ji, the Mulas of his time didn't like what he was saying, just like now in Pakistan,

Punjabi language is spoken in different regions of Pakistani Punjab.

I would like to tell one thing here that I strongly believe that it was Sheikh Fariduddin Ganjshakar who first wrote in Punjabi as we have written evidences......his poems,quotes are registered in Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj. Also I live in Faridkot, Punjab.......where he came in the 1200s after whom this city has been named. We read his verses quite a lot and it is clearly Punjabi, not modern Punjabi but definitely Punjabi.❤ Edit: Faridkot as in Indian Punjab.

Saint Kabir was not from Punjab. He was from Banaras(U.P.) We have a dedicated university on Punjabi language that is called Punjabi University, Patiala. This university has done unmatched research on Punjabi language. Vedas were written in 1500 BC in Punjab and the script was Sanskrit. How come that Punjabi has no connection with Sanskrit?

Love and regards from England very well explained! God bless 😊

میں ایک پنجابی ہوں اور اس پر فخر محسوس کرتا ہوں

To me Urdu is the language of the courtseans(naach girls, prostitutes) of Lucknow, Meerut, Delhi, Agra and Allahabad. Punjabi is much refined, old and superior language than Urdu which has no basis but borrowed grammer from Sanskrit and lexicon from all over the world.

Congratulations; wow, what a delightful way to learn about my younger years (mother) languages. I have been residing in Toronto, Canada for over fifty years but was born at Lahore, Pakistan. I throughly enjoyed your very informative video of Punjabi and Urdu. Thank you.

Please first educate yourself, what you are saying is totally wrong, Punjab always spoke Punjabi, if you're parents were from Punjab means they were Punjabis.secondly urdu was enforced on us in 1947 , yet only 2 percent people speak urdu. So basically urdu is not our language while Pakistans judicial language is English, please don't misguide ever one and yourself.thanks.

I am fully agreed that for any language to flourish it never necessarily needs to be an official language. It actually needs your love and attachment for that language as i we can see for example Tamilian attachment with Tamil. As i knew from my Tamilian colleagues (this actually, i am not sure) Tamilian whether Muslim, Hindu, Christian anyone read their religious books in Tamil script. They have transformed all religious books in their Tamil script. Their Love and attachment for Tamil language, i deeply respect. Same i expect from Punjabi speakers that kindly dont connect Punjabi language with Sikh religion.This beautiful language was still there long long before the origin of Sikh religion. I wish better sense prevail among Punjabi people. 🙏 🙏 🙏

Punjab = land of five rivers

Nice kahi bhasha sikhne se kitne hi culchar ka pata chalta hai ji thanks

I am Impressed your research and presentation. You are doing great job. I have suggesstion for vedio, please add more visual like pictorial.

Very informative video! Lots of love and respect from Chardha Punjab 🙏 🙏

Sis, now you are beginning to get the gyst. I am Sikh born and brought up in Indian Haryana but both parents were born in Pakistani Punjab (Sargodha area). So, I know 4 languages - Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Hindi (Devnagri), Of course English (Indian/US. I am settled in the US now), Urdu (Love the Urdu script though am not as fluent), and finally Haryanvi dialect of the area I was born in. Over the years, I have absolutely loved Hindi Kahaniyan of Munshi Prem Chand. You have to know Devanagari and Hindi to really get the gyst of his Kahaniyan. One of my favorites “Poos Ki Raat”. It was in the official texts of my grade school. I absolutely enjoyed translation into Hindi of Rabindranath Tagore stories. And, I have read most of the classic novels in English as well with authors like Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen. American novels like Gone With the Wind, Fountainhead, Catcher In the Rye. All this I had done before I turned 22. I migrated to the US when I was 25. I did my Engineering from IIT Delhi 1990-1995. I have been in the US since 1998. And, guess what for the last 10 years all I watch is Pak Dramas. So much so that I have reduced watching Bollywood Junk big time. I just do not relate with most of the stuff being dished out from there. So, yes there is room and place for multiple languages, religions, cultures etc. Life would be very boring if it was all homogeneous- one language, one religion, one culture. Nope. Would not like that. I am so glad that you did this video in Hindi. And, I promise I will get plenty of goose bumps if you did one in Punjabi! ❤😅

I know 6 languages ; Punjabi, Hindi,English, Urdu, Bangla, and Spanish.

Punjabi Language is Spoken in many regions of the world 🌎.

Interesting history of Punjabi language I am not a Punjabi but I can speak and understand Punabi . If you start along Indus from north Hazara in KPK you find Hindko come downward Attock Mianwali and then Punjab Muzaffargarh BWP and then sindh you see the language changing its accent and taste so ppl living alongside speak punjabi (from Gojri, Hindko, Pothohari, Saraiki etc) . I have travelled in every part of Pakistan we have such a nice country that from Northern Areas the huge mountainous range to the lush green field of Punjab sindh and deserts of Cholistan /Thur etc our heritage. You mentioned that during Mughal era our medium in education was Persian/Arabic but British opted Urdu for us Urdu is fortified with both Arabic and Persian languages . Few years back I went to Beirut and there a taxi Driver asked me are you a Muslim I said yes, then he asked can you read Quran I said yes then he asked why you don't speak Arabic I said it is British conspiracy to isolate from the Arab world and the central Asia otherwise we would have been a leader. so Urdu is no problem every Pakistani can speak and understand . In Punjab the change is in main cities where ppl hesitate to speak punjabi and more our punjabi refrain to go outside punjab say Karachi the largest city of the country this is my personal experience that they are not comfortable to settle there but look the ppl of kpk karachi is the city rather the largest city inhabitat Pathans. self limiting concept restrict them and therefore will not encourage others to be influenced

Great video Mesha, very informative and you have put a lot of hard work- Kind regards

Hi, well explained. I want to tell you that Hazrat Fariduddin Ganjshakar is the writer in guru granth sahib not farid sani. Thank you

MashaAllah, very useful information ❤ Unfortunately, currently, there is no work going on this beautiful language.

(1) ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਦਾ ਵਿਸ਼ਲੇਸ਼ਣ ਕਰਨ ਵੇਲੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ‘ਸ਼ਾਰਦਾ’ਅਤੇ ‘ਟਾਕਰੀ’ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਨੂੰ ਭੁੱਲ ਗਏ । (2) ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਦਾ ਪਹਿਲੀ ਵਾਰੀ ਲਿਖਤੀ ਪ੍ਰਯੋਗ ਬਾਬਾ ਫ਼ਰੀਦ ਜੀ ਨੇ ਹੀ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਸਲੋਕ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਰਜ਼ ਹਨ । (3) ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੀ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਦੀ ਖੇਚਲ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ ।

Madam, it would have been better if you talk in Punjabi @ Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi. Hope you will consider it in your next episode.

Thank you for Protecting Punjabi.

Good information.

Yes we want to watch such series. Waiting.

Tusi Bara Changa Kam Kar ray o Rab Tanu hasda wasda rakhy Ameeennnn I am lahori Punjabi ❤❤❤

Punjab di dhi ay Punjabi which gal kar dhiey Khudawand Khuda tennon barkat devy ameen Ameen Ameen 🙏🙏🙏 ✝️ 🇮🇱 🇮🇹

Thanks for sharing insights on such an important language.

Urdu ko impose kia gia at the cost of regional languages. As you said in Sikh empire they used Persian as the official language but that was not at the cost of regional language i.e., Punjabi .

Aap bahut achi urdu bolti hain, alfaz ka chunao aur adaigi kamal ke ha, actually in west punjab, punjabi has absorbed many local and other languages words but still it seems east punjab has purity and originality in punjabi, really sardars are speaking punjabi that is near to early days punjabi, although not 100 percent as all languages going through some changes with time.

اللہ نے ہی مختلف قبیلے کے لوگوں کو پیدا کیا تاکہ تمہاری پہچان ہو سکے

We should promote our mother tongue. Each one of us in our own ways should be doing it at our level. Dont let punjabi language die. Be in it in India or in Pakistan. A thoughtful video. Good work. Love from India

Punjabi is a language of Punjabi Civilizations with multiple dialogue and very rich vocabulary as well as idiums and etc. yes one thing is to remember that it has adoptebility as it's peoples

So proud to be Punjabi ❤️

Very Good Video 👌

Sada Sona Punjab ❤Sadi soni Language Punjabi❤

let's try to revive Punjabi language in our respective regions jointly.....hunn sama aa geya hai ke asi kuchh kariye apni maa boli Punjabi baare ....it can't be done by youtube posts. can i have your e-mail contact ?

Punjab punjabiyat zindabad

VERY GOOD EFFORT. KEEP IT UP .WELL DONE

Love you punjabi punjab from tarntaran chrda punjab ❤ proud to speak punjabi

love form indian punjab

More and more languages should be learnt.But mother language should not be forgotten as it is not linked with any religion.

You are mistaken. At the time of Guru nanak script was founded from older remnants, evidence is in the writings. Language of the adi granth is an anthology of indic language and some arabic/persian too. It is not a homogenous punjabi language. The problem is confusing language with the script.

Punjabi script to which we call today Gurmukhi existed prior to origin of Sikhism. Guru Sahib adopted this script for Gurbani, that is why general public renamed it as a Gurmukhi. Guru Nanak Dev Ji where went far and wide, he noted down verses of other saints who worshiped only one and one Almighty God. Such a saint may be Muslim or Hindu as Seikh Farid, Kabir, Namdev or Ravidass Ji. When Granth Sahib was composed by Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji Mahraj 5th Guru of Sikhs, was written in Gurmukhi Script.

Explaining Punjabi language in URDU and never spoke one word of Punjabi. Five highs for her.

Judge and analyse with wisdom that how beautiful language urdu is!

Of all the languages in Indian subcontinent, Punjabi is closest to Sanskrit. Little wonder Punjab is also the place Sanskrit first appeared.

Ap nay bolny ka andaz kahan say sekha ?

Punjabi evolved from Apabhransha, which is the last linguistic stage of Prakrit. There wasn't a single prakrit each region had its own prakrit. The very Apabhransha from which modern Punjabi evolved is found in the romantic poem named Saneha Rasaya or Sandes Rasaka by Abdurehman of Multan somewhere around 11th century AD. Couple of centuries after we find sufi poetry of Baba Farid in very old Punjabi language

Madam ji, jab aap itne behtareen talaffuz se Farsi aur Arabi ke alfaaz bol leti h toh thoda Sanskrit wale shabdo pe bhi gaur kar liya karein. 3:37 - HIMAA-laya (aur HIMAA-chal) hota h, Himuh-LAAYAA nahi 4:43 - PRAA-krit (not Pruh-KREET) 6:26 - AADI Gruhnth (not aDEE GRAAnth) 11:35 - PAATH-shaalaa (plural - PAATH-shaalaayein) Bura manne ki baat nahi hai, aap Musalmaan h zaahir h aapne inme se kaii alfaaz nahi sune honge par Punjabi ki baat ho rahi hai toh dhyaan dena banta h. Balki Urdu ki bhi baat ho toh bhi Sanskrit ke alfaazo ka talaffuz zehen m rakhna chahiye. Appreciate your effort for making awareness on the history of Punjabi language though!

Urdu was created in UP with parsi script by British for Muslims of India. 90% of present of day Pakistan could not speak Urdu before 1947. Parsi, Punjabi,pashtun and Sindhi was dominant languages of Pakistan before 1947. Even Jinnah didn't know Urdu as his mother tongue was Gujarati.Urdu's grammar is from Sanskrit/Hindi. Urdu is a combination of majority Hindi spoken words with administrative words of Parsi, Turkish and Arabic words. Earlier Urdu was called Hindavi. It was imposed late 1880s. British didn't encourage Punjabi language as they had fear that Hindu Punjabis and muslim Punjabis could unite against British.

When ghaznavids invaded and ruled punjab they formed urdu( called lahori back then) ..it was formed from old punjabi base which was very different from modern punjabi and had infuences of haryanvi multani and other regional languages

Very good article bravo

Please read the book of Asif khan " Punjabi Boli Da Pichhokar " to understand the origin and evolution of Punjabi language.

Baba Farid was Fariduddin Ganjshankar of 11 century

آپ نے بہت اچھا وی لاگ بنایا ہے. بہتر ہوتا کہ یہ وی لاگ پنجابی میں بھی ہوتا.

Very great job.

I am proud to be Punjabi, It is very sweet language

مکمل متفق آپکے لیکچر ابتدائیہ سے

Study more and please don't lie, This language originated from the area of Harrapan civilization. Which means at the time of Indus civilization more then 7000 years old civilization. Now mostly migrated people are living here and they are trying to undermine Punjabi. They want to vanish Punjabi from Punjab and impose Urdu language which does not belong to this area. Punjabi Language Is 5500 Years Old - Book By Dr. Jaspal Singh Mayell Hardcover - 1 January 2017

yes we want to learn more about Punjab and Punjabi.

Pl. keep the good work going with regard to Punjabi and Pujab's rich and glorious history .

Nice video misha

Gurjit Veer this absoiletly true all the way back to the start of civilization lub u bro ur on the rifht track Gurjit

بہت اچھا کام ۔ برائے مہربانی سرائیکی کے بارے میں ایک ( بہترین تحقیقی ویڈیو بنائیں) سرائیکی زبان (زبان کیونکہ پاکستان میں سرائیکی بولنے کا علاقہ بہت بڑا ہے اور انڈیانا کے لوگ بھی یہ زبان استعمال کرتے ہیں۔