We discussed the root cause and the history related to the Punjabi language being ignored or avoided by Pakistani Punjabis. Novelist, poet and storyteller Nain Sukh talks about this identity crisis within Punjab. #Punjab #Punjabi #ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Mashallah.. in the name of “One nation or One Unit”, we have already lost half Pakistan and now just because we don’t want to accept our ancestral roots we are on the path of further breakup.
Punjabi is not a dying language. It is a language that has been neglected by the Pakistani Punjabis who form the majority of the Punjabi population worldwide. It’s a shame to abandon your mother tongue for another language that is imported from U.P India with is Urdu.
@@TheNumbardar128Some of the Hindu Punjabis have started learning Punjabi in Delhi, and in the future, there will be more as the current gen is more connected to the roots with the touch of modernization.
I am a Sindhi but i feel so sorry for Punjabi Culture where these ppl are going please Be Proud of your culture your language don't destroy your history
Nabeel Nabi you feel sorry for your Karachi first. Lahore has more than 90% punjabi speakers, Dhaka has more than 95% Bengali speakers,Peshawar has more than 95% Pashto speakers. It is only you Sindhis who have lost their capital city Karachi to these Urdu speakers. Not only Karachi even Hyderabad. So Sad !! Moreover India has a Punjab to preserve Punjabi, India has a Bengal to preserve Bengali, Afghanistan has a Pashtunistan to preserve Pashto.There is only one Sindh in Pakistan where you guys promoting Urdu.
Bhaji Punjabi is a very rich language mein India to Sikh Haan ate menu Punjabi houn te Maan hai aasi Punjabi bhasha bolan te bahut maan feel karde haan Dhikar hai una lokaa te jo aapni maat bhasha chdde jaa rahe han
“ it’s not merely loss of language but a loss of rich tapestry of experiences and emotions that it carries . Our mother tongue encapsulates our soul , and its loss leaves us feeling fragmented , longing for the connection and harmony that once was” love your Maa Boli- punjabi is so rich and full of wisdom, don’t kill it 😢
They wanted to change our DNA and Culture but Allah changed their own language.Punjabi shameless people feel proud to speak Lucknow ,Bihar’s urdu instead Punjabi….Shame
Change the headline to say the following : Why Pakistani Punjabis disown their Language. We Indian Punjabis are proud of our mother tongue Punjabi and will never disown it.
Am chief officer in Vships India. Being sailor i hv sailed with so many different crew and officers, not only frm India but from different countries all over world, in last 15 years of my service. As a turbaned Sikh and being Punjabi i hv recieved so much of respect from people frm all over India and World that i proudly broaden my Chest and feel high in saying that i am from Punjab and my language is Punjabi. I hv never seen anyone in my life who could disregard Punjabi language, esp nowdays when Punjabi singers hv taken Punjabi music to World platform. Actually what i think in Pakistan problem is not in punjabi language, problem exist in people who speak Punjabi. In India Punjabi language reflects Punjabi people in Indian Punjab, who are respected in most of the Indian and foriegn cultures being brave, hardworking, trustworthy. So i can say in India, Punjabi language is respected because of Punjabi people. Pakistani Punjabi speakers kindly think over it, why Punjabi is disregarded like this in Pakistan. People in Charda Punjab will lay their lives but never let it happen... as Punjabi lies in our blood in form of Gurbani. 🙏🙏🙏
Indian Punjabis are similar somehow. In the cities, Hindi is slowly taking over. However, the village people in Indian Punjab are more influential and are in different parts of the world; that’s why it looks like Punjabi is more spoken and respected. But if we move to cities like Jalandhar, Patiala, Mohali, Ludhiana(and other eastern Punjab cities), people speak Hindi. We were not allowed to speak in schools and had fines for speaking Punjabi in the English/Hindi medium schools, which are 75% of the schools in Punjab. But now the trends have changed. Punjabi is going more and more global. Thanks to Canada, the UK Punjabis, and the other NRIs, they are an integral part of reviving Punjabi again at a mass level in a short period. Also, the songs have made Punjabi a global language. The Punjabi music industry is enormous. If, in this case, the movie culture built in both Punjabs increases, then the film industry will also be one of the best.
Hindi has infiltrated but if you look at the no of students in central board in premier schools choosing between punjabi and Hindi for their matric exam it’s 80 percent punjabi which is encouraging
"Punjabi itni famous zabaan nahi hai", how much more ignorant are we going to become? Punjabi is spoken by 120 million people in the world and is the 10th most commonly spoken language in the world. It is a really old language, and if I remember it is older than Hindi, and for sure Urdu which is fairly recent.
Unfortunately, Punjabi language had the same fate in Indian Punjab. After independence, States were organized on the basis of languages. However, Marathi and Punjabi were not recognized as one of the popular languages as others. Marathi was considered as sub language of Gujarati and Punjabi as sub language of Hindi. Marathi speakers called for agitation until it was accepted and Maharashtra State was created. Punjabi had another bad luck. Around partition of the country, many Punjabi speaking Hindus and Muslims betrayed their mother tongue Punjabi in favor of Hindi and Urdu on religious grounds. After partition only we Sikhs were left to fight for recognition and safeguard Punjabi. After 1965 war between India and Pakistan, Central Government reluctantly accepted Punjabi. Another blow was done to Punjab by reorganizing it in carving out Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Many of the Punjabi speaking districts were given to those States further creating wedges between residents of these new States. Maybe this was the reward of sacrifices Punjabis made for fighting for Independence or fear of further partition of the country. So sad.
It is the stupidest thing to kill a language. Indian Sikhs have kept the language alive by teaching their children even teaching them Muslim Pakistani like Baba Bhulay Shah and other sufi poets. Pakistan should keep Punjabi alive even writing it with Urdu or English alphabets. Turks had changed their letters from Arabic to English.
"Punjabi famous jubaan nhi hai 😂",Janaab urdu is no where close to Punjabi in terms of number of people speaking globally. Pls check stats. I am not a Punjabi speaker rather I m from old Delhi and can speak urdu really good . Bolo na bolo aapki Marzi, aapka haq, magar haqeeqat ko jhutlana nhi chahiye. Luv ❤. Punjabi is beautiful,come out of Pakistan and see how Punjabi music and culture is topping the charts.
He is talking about the dominant language in arts. How many Punjabi films are known globally as of now? I can't think of a single one. Also, how much vocabulary has been added to the Punjabi language, or how many books written in Punjabi do people read? The fact is that Urdu and Punjabi are both in decline when it comes to their representation in arts/cultural events, the latter being in a steeper decline. Moreover, that man never said there are more Urdu speakers than Punjabis globally. Please don't look at things out of context.
@@tahatariq2424We have a global music industry, and most Indian music is known through Punjabi music. Bhangra dance is well known and one of the most famous in the Indian Subcontinent. There is no match for the poetry of Bulleh Shah. Haven’t you heard of Heer-Ranja? There are many more, but Heer-ranjha is one of the most famous. Most of the topics of Bollywood are related to Punjab. And Punjabis have dominated Bollywood for quite a long time. If there were more Punjabi speakers in Punjab(India), the movies would have been popular, but now the audience is limited to Punjab, so they go directly to Bollywood. Only if the partition hadn’t happened, there would have been more history, but due to the migration of Punjabis, they have not only lost their heritage but also their money. And there are so many more things that Punjabis have achieved worldwide, but you chose to be ignorant.
The fate of punjabi even in india can be gauged from the fact that I, a Sikh, was born and brought up in Delhi, yet i can not read and write punjabi. I am 73 now, and when i was student, 75% of Delhi was Punjabi, yet it was not recognised as a state language..
In kashmir once I met punjabi speaking muslim who were from lahore before partition. Their mother was speaking pure punjabi but sons were speaking urdu kashmiri. Their behaviour changed once we spoke in punjabi, friendly. Even otherwise they were nice n i remember them today.
Is Urdu that far evolved than Punjabi? Who speaks Urdu? Pakistanis (mainly muhajirs and Johnny come lately Punjabis) and Indians the latter because it grew due to the happy confluence of Hindi and Persian not Arabic. If any one who got it to Pakistan it was the mujahir, since they wanted a Pakistan not Punjabis. So despite hating India Pakistan took an Indian language for a national language, that's why if anyone who could lay a claim to it are the mujahirs or Indians of UP. If you really want your children to progress get them to learn English (of course in addition to the language of their forefathers as it's their identity); no one bothers about Urdu outside the subcontinent. Not to say that Urdu is bad, in fact it can give a run to french as a language of love if not beat it outright. As for Punjabi it's one of the earthy languages of the subcontinent, while it can be brutally crass but it can also be elevated to a language of love and laughter (fun), it's slang can put cockney slang to shame, it can even make morose thing a happy thing. It has the subtle feel as that of petrichor and an amazing cadence no wonder Bollywood is enamoured and it resounds on dance floors across continents.
Except Sikhs, both Muslim and Hindu communities of Punjab shunned their mother tongue. I think Punjabi is surviving just because of love of Sikhs for their mother tongue.
I lived in Lahore and Faisalabad for more than 10 years I found no Punjabi who was ashamed of being Punjabi . They always speak Punjabi with their fellow Punjabi. They speak Urdu with me because I was unable to speak Punjabi(I am seraiki).
I'm Hindkowan from District Mansehra KPK, and we speak Hindko which is mutually intelligible with Punjabi and Seraiki. Hindko and Seraiki are my favorite 'dialects'. We are suffering from the same problem of Urdu imposition and dying mother tongue. Sometimes I feel like some people are just trying to divide us common people who speak 'the same language.'
Why punjabis dont speak punjabi, there are tons of factors but, punjabi not being educational language seems the biggest factor to me. Ppl name you PAINDOO" (villeger) and backward when someone speaks punjabi. I was called pando (villeger) when I speak punjabi among my circle/relatives. In Lahore, ppl in markets (from lower social status wise) and bussiness space, use to speak punjabi but not any more. I believe we must strive to teach our kids punjabi, on individual level and on school level. "When language dies, culture dies as well"
ae saadi Maa Boli ae te sanu edda satkar kerna chahida ae..... shukriya ess program karan da jiddi vajah tau saadi maa boli de baray loog jaagrut hovan ge.
Panjabi canada vich teeze nomber te Australia 5 v number te Charde panjab vich pehle number te duniya vich daswe number te hai. Jo apni dharti maa te jubaan da nahi hoya oh kisi da v nahi ho sakda. Panjabi ek ameer jubaan hai.
Gurmukhi was a sikh language , downfall of punjabi amongst pakistanis cannot be attiributed to Sikhs who before the partition were only 3rd largest community
@@harnoorsingh1287 obviously , Shahmukhi was already used to write Punjabi before Gurmukhi . Why create a parallel script for a language which already had Shahmukhi . Clearly , the script was created just for a particular community
@@abhinay4200 shahmukhi was for the mughal and afghan elite. And yes gurmukhi was used for gurbani. But since it is indigenous to punjab. It deserves more sanction. And by the way, communal tensions we're nt the way they are today. Nowadays hatred is too much
Punjabi is not a dying language. Punjabi is neglected by pakistani Punjabi. Because they were poarised by wested interested people.Punjabi pakistani has forget Baba shaikh Farid, Waris shah, Bule shah and forgetting their rich culture and heritage . MORE OVER PUNJABI LANGUAGE OF PEOPLE OF A AREA NOT OF A PARTICULAR SECT OR RELIGION. PAKISTANI PUNJABI BROTHERS AND SISTERS PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND SAVE YOUR CULTURE AND HERITAGE BY PROMOTING PUNJABI.GOD BLESS. WHEN YOUR OTHER STATES ARE HAVING THEIR ON MOTHER LANGUAGE WHY THE PUNJAB AND PUNJABIS ARE BESIDED . WHY PAKISTAN PUNJABI ARE NOT FAITHFUL TO THEIR MOTHER LANGUAGE.
PUNJABI is a compulsory subject up to Class 12 in Indian PUNJAB literature of punjabi is rich culture also rich dominating the whole of NORTH INDIA here punjabi is taught in GURMUKHI SCRIPT easy to write and understand
If Punjabi disappears from Pakistan, it'll be such a Shame for Punjabis of Pakistan. By loosing their real language and culture, they'll be nothing but Loosers and Sindhis, Balochis, Pashtun, etc will deserve Respect for keeping Pride in their Identity, Language and Culture.
Language develops when people connect with the land and then culture grows. I like the comment that Nain Sukh Sb made” people are living in Punjab but thinking that they are Afghans, Greeks, Persians etc” they are living in Punjab but have not connected to the land they live in? This is like I am living in a rented house- why would I try to improve or develop a connection- we are just living in Punjab but our identities are ( correct or incorrect) are Afghan, Persian , Greek etc) even after 8-10 generations. Today what I see we connect ourselves more to Arabs than the place our families live in. Pakistans society is in a state of MASS Confusion! Any ways- please suggest 2-3 current books in Punjabi language- poetry, novel, non fiction- that should be current and be a must Read for Punjabis. Keep Culture Alive!! Thanks
I feel so bad for Pakistani Punjabis who have disowned their mother tongue, so poorly informed about the Punjabi language and culture. They are the confused people who does not understand that people who disown their language usually end up as people with no future. Hope, they get wiser and and start speaking Punjabi. People must know that Punjabi language script(later called Gurmukhi)is 5000 years old. Sikh Gurus wrote in Punjabi language which was common people’s language.
Have you ever thought that maybe they do not belong to this region? Their fathers and mothers were Arabs, Persians and Central Asians. They just occupied the land and have accidentally picked up the native language
Please, don't blame goraRaj/ colonialists. They believed in pluralism, they promoted Bengali, Marathi, Gujrati, Sindhi etc. You'll have to find more cogent reasons for the plight of Punjabi language.
The root cause of murder of punjabi of our ancestors like Bulley Shah & Baba Farid is the venom of communalism of the last hundred years by Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims of Punjab. My ancestors left 75% of sikh heritage in pakistan, hindus in indian punjab disowned their mother tongue and opted for sanskritized hindi. Punjabi musilman who was major part, the backbone of punjabiyat, opted for urdu even though they were the ruling class. I accept that urdu was imposed by the ruling british for their own vested interests, but what stopped the rulers from Ayub to Zia to Niwaz not to start Punjabi. We in indian punjab had to sacrifice many parts of punjab to Himachal, Haryana etc because of the communal punjabi hindu. Ofcourse there was pressure by respective central govts to impose urdu and hindi, but the so called brave punjabis succumbed to these pressures..
punjabi are not caring their mother language punjabi . That why the pakistani of other state are not believing punjabi and hating punjabi. They think punjabi are enemy of their mother langages because they are not faithful to their own punjabi language.
In Pakistan many Punjabi muslims think that Punjabi is language of Sikhs and Hindus, so they rejected that language . That is one of the reasons not the only reason.
Biggest tragedy of punjabi was its association with a religion through a script. This pushed the others away. But that is also is it’s saving grace as it is it’s only bulwark that is protecting it. Strange irony.
بالکل ہمیں فخر ہے کہ ہم پاکستانی پنجابی ہیں کے پنجابی ہماری مادری زبان ہے اور ہم اردو کو بھی فخر دیتے ہیں کہ اردو ہماری قومی زبان ہے دونوں زبانیں سیکھنی چاہیے اردو اور پنجابی اردو اور پنجابی یہ دونوں بہت بڑی اور عظیم زبانیں ہیں اور لوگوں کو ان کی قدر معلوم نہیں ہے دونوں زبانیں بولنی چاہیے اردو اور پنجابی اور پڑھنی بھی چاہیے اردو ہمیشہ ہماری قومی زبان رہے گی ہمیشہ ہمیشہ کے لئے اور یہ کبھی نہیں بدلے گا
تم جیسے غلط لوگوں سے اور امید بھی کیا کی جاسکتی ہے اردو زبان کا کوئی تعلق نہیں ہے یو پی یو اتر پردیش کے ساتھ اردو زبان کا جنم ہوا تھا پنجاب میں مشرقی پنجاب میں کیونکہ اردو زبان جو ہے یہ جو ہماری قومی اردو زبان ہے یہ پنجابی سے نکلی ہے اور اس وقت دلی شہر جو ہے یہ پہلے پنجاب کا حصہ تھا مغل فارسی حکومت کے انے سے پہلے لیکن بہت افسوس ہے کہ تم جیسے غلط اور بے غیرت لوگوں کو شرم انی چاہیے کیونکہ تم لوگ اردو سے نفرت کرتے ہو معاذاللہ پنجابی قومی زبان نہیں بن سکتی کبھی بھی نہیں بن سکتی کیونکہ ہم اپنی مادری زبانوں کو دوسرے صوبوں پر تھوپ نہیں سکتے اور جو کچھ بھی ہوا وہ بالکل صحیح ہوا ہے کہ اردو کو ہماری قومی زبان بنائی ہے قائد اعظم رحمۃ اللہ تعالی علیہ نے وہ فیصلہ بالکل صحیح ہے اور دو راستے تھے کیونکہ صرف دو زبانوں میں ایک قومی زبان چونی جاسکتی تھی ایک فارسی اور دوسرا اردو اور فارسی تو ہمارے لوگوں کو ہرگز قبول نہیں تھی تو اس لئے ہم نے اردو زبان کو چنا ہے کہ اردو ہماری قومی زبان بنے گی پورے پاکستان کی قومی زبان صرف اردو بنے گی جو بالکل صحیح ہے اسی لئے حکومتیں پاکستان نے اردو کو چنا تھا یہ فیصلہ بالکل صحیح ہے اردو زبان جو ہے جو ہماری قومی اردو زبان ہے یہ پنجابی سے نکلی ہے پہلے اس زبان کو ہندی کہا جاتا تھا اور بعد میں پھر جب مغل فارسی کو حکومت آئے تھے تو انہوں نے فارسی کے کچھ الفاظ ہندی زبان میں رلا دیے تھے پھر جا کر یہ مکمل اردو زبان بنی @@surindergill746
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. 🙏 🙏 🙏
When an ethnic group completely disown it's ancestral language and culture and follows a foreign language and culture its because such an ethnic group has been totally conquered by the foreign invasion.
Nain Sukh sa'ab di aal gall galat aa k Sarkar ne Charhde Punjab vich Punjabi vich Sanskrit mila ditti. Sarkar ne Punjab vich Hindi Impose karn da poora zor laaya hoya c te hoya hae but especially Sikhs, Delhi diya saariya chaalan nu fail kar rahe ne, te kade v kaamyab nahi hon denge. Kyo k Sikha nu Punjab, Punjabi te Punjabiyat te maan ae
Mainu sab tau zyada uss banday te afsos hoya ae jerha keh rya ci ke Punjabi koi famous zuban nai ae te kam parha likha banda edha istemal kerda ae..... enha jahilan nu ehi nai patta ke Punjabi Zuban kiddi vadi zuban ae tehzeeb aur literature de aitebar naalo.
Once printing press and newspapers came to india, changed for ever! All regional languages from Kashmiri to Tamil , Gujarati to Aasami witnessed renaissance ! Now novels Short stories , plays and poems were written in these languages. It become available to common people. Many Englishmen and westerners contributed lot!
i have seen Pakistani actress saba qamar who featured in Hindi medium movie alongside irfan khan once said in interview that they have to forcefully learn punjabi language so that they can speak with “chhota tabka” means servants of her home !
Urdu was court language of mughal period. After british came they were writing in roman english. So we can say that urdu is arabic script with local dialect having hindi, punjabi , farsi n arabic words mixed. Later on we learnt english which become language of elite class. We spk english pruodly to show our class, literate class. It is facts that all medical n engineering books r in english. Learn as many as language as u can to widen ur horizen/ understanding. In south India u can't manage without english. Every language has its own advantage. Bhule shah nu punjabi de bager samajana possible hai ki? Let us ponder over this. Baba farid de murid r world over, a fact of life.
Urdu language didn’t exist when Mughals ruled, Persian was the court language. Urdu is a pidgin language: Hindi mixed with Arabic, Turkish and Persian words. Hindi and Urdu grammar is identical. Urdu is an artificial language, there is no high literature in Urdu. There are no medical, engineering books etc.
Is Punjabi taught in Pakistani schools, Do Pakistani Punjabis speak Punjabi in their homes with kids? These two parameters decide how Punjabi as a language is treated in Pakistan. Pakistani Punjabis have abandoned their *MOTHER PUNJABI* for an alien *MOHAJIR URDU* Pakistani Punjabis can get Shahmukhi Punjabi implemented in Punjabi schools within 1 day if they declare one day strike in favour of Punjabi as they control Pakistan being 55% of the population. Why they are not demanding implementation of Punjabi is beyond me. Pakistan’s definition has been supposedly defined by *DEOBAND UP* based clerics which have nothing in common with Punjabi culture & history. In fact there is a history of 300 years of bitter enmity between *PUNJABIS & UP WALE* this is the main reason behind the systematic decline & destruction of Punjabi language & culture in Pakistani Punjab
@gulrezrana3710 For 77 years Pakistan Govt has banned teaching of Punjabi in schools & colleges, fine is imposed on speaking in Punjabi in schools, openly term it as *PAINDU* language, Punjabi parents scold their children when they speak in Punjabi. This created *INFERIORITY COMPLEX* is what I am talking about. Just to grab properties of Hindu Sikhs they have pandered to *DEOBANDI BHAIYAS* who are at heart enemies of Punjabi for last 300 years
@gulrezrana3710 The Punjabi Elite has pandered to *DEOBANDI UP WALE BHAIYAS* & surrendered to *MOHAJIR URDU* so that they could grab fleeing Hindu Sikh properties & fertile lands. This is the unwritten code between the *DEOBANDIS* & Pakistani Punjabis
Punjabiyo... Punjab, Punjabi te Punjabiyat te Maan karo... Zbaana saariya sikho, par bolo apni Punjabi. Pakistan de bhaiye tuhade te hasde hone aa, k changge Punjabi aa.. apni zubaan to nafrat karde aa, te saadi zubaan bolde aa
Punjabi zaban da shikwa"kese keh doon ke mujhe choor dia hai punjabion ne(pakistani)......Baat to sach hai mager baat hai ruswai ki.(Bechari punjabi in pakistan).
pakstani punjabi must stand thier Ground.or Hamko tumko people will swallow you. punjabi script punjabi Boli is Baba Farid ji .Baba Bulai shah, sada Heer Ranjha, sahiba,Mirja Boli.you can not disrespect them.punjabi in india has so much respect them we feel lost everey punjabi song inter connected with them. chief mininister of punjab must should make punjabi language mandatory up to High school.
Read, Talk and Write in Punjabi...Mother Tongue is ones love, respect and forever bond to one's own roots..... Punjabi is not just a religious language but much more than that..... Baba Bulley Shah and countless many learned scholars will always find countless followers, readers......
Shame to those Panjabis who feel proud to be jatt and Panjabi but feel ashamed to speak own language? Lahnat tuhade te. Apni boli te apna desh shad k tusi UP de gulam ho gaye.
