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Language Comparison: Punjabi Shahmukhi vs Samoan
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Aspect | Punjabi Shahmukhi | Samoan |
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Family | Indo-European, Indo-Aryan | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 130 million (includes speakers of both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts) | Approximately 500,000 |
Features | Written in a modified Perso-Arabic script; primarily used by Punjabi speakers in Pakistan and some parts of India. Unlike Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi is written from right to left. | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Pakistan (primary script for Punjabi), India (minority use), and Punjabi-speaking diaspora communities | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Shahmukhi script (Perso-Arabic script with additional characters) | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes, tonal distinctions are important for meaning | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, relies on word order and postpositions | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Perso-Arabic script, adapted for Punjabi phonology | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Persian, and English | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Includes Majhi, Doabi, Malwai, Pothohari, and others. Standard Shahmukhi is based on the Majhi dialect spoken around Lahore. | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands |
Alphabets | ا, ب, پ, ت, ٹ, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ڈ, ذ, ر, ڑ, ز, ژ, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ک, گ, ل, م, ن, ں, و, ہ, ء, ی, ے | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) |
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