Where Western Panjabi is spoken
Western Panjabi is spoken in 2 countries: Pakistan and India. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.
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.
Western 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 Western 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 Western Panjabi sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Western Panjabi as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Northwestern zone
- Sindhi-Lahnda
- Greater Panjabic
- Western Panjabi
More about Western Panjabi
Codes: ISO 639-3 pnb, Glottolog west2386. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.
Questions about Western Panjabi
Where is Western Panjabi spoken?
Western Panjabi is spoken in Pakistan and India. Unicode CLDR puts it at 40% of the population of Pakistan, which is about 100,945,600 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.
Which language family is Western Panjabi in?
Glottolog places Western 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 and Greater Panjabic.