Re: Why Punjabis Do Not Speak Punjabi With Their Kids
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Punjabi is an ancient language. Urdu is just 500 years old and originated in Mughal courts while, Baba Farid was writing Punjabi poetry, nearly a thousand years ago.
So its Urdu that has taken its roots from Punjabi and not the other way round.
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Several generations of Punjabi speakers shrieked with pain in their graves (qabar mein taDap gayein) after you posted this. My God!!!
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No they arent. What kind of Urdu/Punjabi have you been hearing?
The Urdu that people speak in Punjab itself is full of Punjabi words and gramatical constructs....I think a lot of Punjabi speakers have a tendency to blend the two languages together, especially if theyre from an urban area. Karachi Urdu, however, is largely unintelligible from Punjabi...and definitely has very little in common with Sindhi.
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Sorry I phrased my sentence wrong, I didn't mean to say Punjabi is a sub-dialect of Urdu or anything, rather Punjabi and Urdu are dialects of the same language...
I'm well aware that Urdu/Hindi is a very recent dialect, whereas Punjabi is the ancienter dialect and Urdu/Hindi has its roots in Punjabi.
Punjabi came before Urdu/Hindi just as Pothwari/Hindko came before Punjabi but they are all mutually intelligible so they're the same language..
I've met some Urdu speaking people who like to claim Urdu is Iranian because it has so many Persian words in it, they just make me laughhh...