Dr. Saima Batool
Dr. Maryam Sarfaraz
پنجابی زبان دی قدامت
(Primitiveness of Punjabi Language)
Keywords
Punjabi Language, Sanskrit, Indo European, Oldness of Punjabi, ‘Munda’ Language, ‘Darvian’ Language, Arians, Linguistics, Language History.
Abstract
A language is a structured system of communication. Language in a broader sense is the method of communication that involves the use of particularly human languages. Languages evolve and diversify over time and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestor is known as a language family. The Indo European family is the most widely spoken and includes languages as diverse as English, Russian Hindi and Punjabi. Punjabi is a language of the land of five rivers. It is a very ancient and almost five thousand years old language. Every nation has his own language and insists to prove his language as the oldest language. Some researcher say that Punjabi is the daughter of Sanskrit but another school of thought say that Punjabi is the oldest although it has different names during different times. We can say that Punjabi is an old language because there are many words of ‘Munda’ and ‘Darvian’ languages in Punjabi which were the languages of people of the Punjab before the arrival of the Arians in this region. In this article it is tried to explain with different references in the favour of Punjabi language and then proved that Punjabi language is an old and first language of this region.