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Where is Eastern Panjabi spoken?

Eastern Panjabi is an Indo-European language, spoken in Pakistan, India, the United Kingdom, Canada and 2 more. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Eastern Panjabi is spoken

Eastern Panjabi is spoken in 6 countries: Pakistan, India, the United Kingdom, Canada and 2 more. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Pakistan70%176,654,800
India2.8%39,455,640
United Kingdom3.6%2,464,528
Canada2.6%1,008,665
Singapore0.2%9,646
BangladeshNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Eastern Panjabi has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Eastern Panjabi?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Eastern Panjabi sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Eastern Panjabi as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Indo-Iranian
  4. Indo-Aryan
  5. Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
  6. Continental Indo-Aryan
  7. Indo-Aryan Northwestern zone
  8. Sindhi-Lahnda
  9. Greater Panjabic
  10. Eastern Panjabic
  11. Eastern Panjabi

Related languages

Other languages in the Eastern Panjabic group:

More about Eastern Panjabi

Codes: ISO 639-3 pan, Glottolog panj1256. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Eastern Panjabi

Where is Eastern Panjabi spoken?

Eastern Panjabi is spoken in Pakistan, India, the United Kingdom, Canada and 2 more. Unicode CLDR puts it at 70% of the population of Pakistan, which is about 176,654,800 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Eastern Panjabi in?

Glottolog places Eastern Panjabi in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan, Continental Indo-Aryan, Indo-Aryan Northwestern zone, Sindhi-Lahnda, Greater Panjabic and Eastern Panjabic.

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