Hindi vs. Punjabi - How similar are Hindi and Punjabi? With the rise of Hindi vs. Punjabi mashups and music videos, many people have been asking questions like "Are Hindi and Punjabi the same?" and "Are Hindi and Punjabi mutually intelligible?" In this video, we will attempt to answer your questions about Hindi and Punjabi by comparing simple vocabulary words. Both Hindi and Punjabi belong to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family, which also includes Bengali, Urdu, and Marathi.
Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with the English language. It is spoken by 490 million people worldwide. Hindi is also one of the official languages of Fiji.
Punjabi is a language with more than 125 million native speakers around the world. It is the native language of the Punjabi people, an ethnolinguistic group of the cultural region of Punjab, which encompasses northwest India and eastern Pakistan. In India, the Punjabi language is written with Gurmukhi script. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written with the Shahmukhi script.
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