Punjabi
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Suno Punjab
Watching the Pakistani drama Suno Chanda, the author hears Punjabi at length for the first time and asks why it is treated as a rustic Urdu, then explores the Lahnda-Eastern…
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Persian Vs. Punjabi Vs. Urdu
Shares clips in which a speaker follows Persian words better in Urdu than in Punjabi mode, taking them as a sign of the divide between Punjabi popular culture and Urdu…
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The Siraiki question
Arguing the Siraiki language is the key question, the author sees Punjabi as a Hindawi pushback into the Lahnda-speaking West, notes Hindko and Siraiki as Lahnda remnants, and says a…
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Pakistan’s Punjab, the Urdu literary hub of Pakistan, is slowly waking up to its lost Punjabi identity
A quoted Scroll article arguing that Pakistan’s Punjab, long an Urdu literary hub, has lost its Punjabi identity as the language was cut off from education, shared by X.T.M without…
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Two Videos in Urdu (both having problems with the language)
Omar Ali compares two Urdu videos, one from a Pakistani elite journalist and one from a woman from Kasur, to argue that neither speaker’s Urdu is their mother tongue and…
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Persian & Ranjit Singh
A quoted extract noting that Ranjit Singh promoted Punjabi literacy yet kept Persian as the court language, perhaps for administrative convenience, posted by X.T.M.
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Sun wey bilori akh waaleya
A link to Coke Studio’s version of a Punjabi song with Meesha Shafi, noting how it salutes folk and classical elements in modernised form, and suggesting material for a postcolonial…
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Aunn Zara (pitch-perfect Punjabi)
On Aunn Zara’s Punjabi in a Pakistani drama, the poster surveys South Asia’s four great languages: Punjabi recovering after Partition, Bengali strengthened by independent Bangladesh, Hindi spreading, and the resistance…
