Advanced Punjabi Alphabet enabling all Punjabi Dialects to be written

After the Great Work, Punjabi Language Activists became able to develop an Advanced Punjabi Shahmukhi Script in which some new characters are included, to write all the Punjab dialects like Majhi, Multani, Saraiki, Hindko etc.

Using this script we can write all voices of the Punjab language, and all dialects.

This Alphabet/script preserves the unity of all Punjabi Dialects: Multani, Majhi, Hindko, Pothohari etc.

Punjabi (/pʌnˈdʒɑːbi/; پنجابی paṉjābī) is an Indo-Aryan language with more than 140 million native speakers in the Indian subcontinent and spread with the Punjabi diaspora worldwide. It is the native language of the Punjabi people, an ethnic group of the cultural region of Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, which extends from northwest India through eastern Pakistan.

This is the Advanced Punjabi Shahmukhi Alphabet of Lahnda ( Western Punjabi).

ا آ ب ٻ پ ت ٹ ث ج ڄ چ ح خ د ڊ ڈ ݙ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک ݢ گ ڳ ل ݪ م ن ݨ ں و ہ ھ ء ی ے

Consonants are doubled with ّ‎ (ੱ). Examples: ﷲ‎ (ਅੱਲਾਹ) “Allāh”, كَچَّا‎ (ਕੱਚਾ) Kachchā “unripe”. The Gurumukhi sounds ñ (ਞ), ṅ (ਙ), ṇ (ਣ), nh (ੰ/ં) are all written with ں‎ nun ghunna (nun without dot). In initial and medial positions, the dot is retained.

ے‎ (Bari ye) is only found in the final position, when writing the sounds e (ਏ) or æ (ਐ), and in initial and medial positions, it takes the form of ی‎.

Vowels are expressed as follows:

Romanization	Final	Middle	Initial
a (ਅ)	N/A	ـَ	اَ
ā (ਆ)	ـَا، ـَی، ـَہ	ـَا	آ
i (ਇ)	N/A	ـِ	اِ
ī (ਈ)	ـِى	ـِيـ	اِی
e (ਏ)	ـے	ـيـ	اے
ai (ਐ)	ـَے	ـَيـ	اَے
u (ਉ)	N/A	ـُ	اُ
ū (ਊ)	ـُو	ـُو	اُو
o (ਓ)	ـو	ـو	او
au (ਔ)	ـَو	ـَو	اَو

Punjabi diacritics:

(ئ ؤ and stand alone ء) hamza: indicates a glottal stop.
ḥarakāt (in Arabic: حركات also called تشكيل tashkīl):(ــَـ) fatḥa (a)
(ــِـ) kasra (i)
(ــُـ) ḍamma (u)
(ــْـ) sukūn (no vowel)
(ــٰـ) superscript alif (also “short” or “dagger alif”: A replacement for an original alif that is dropped in the writing out of some rare words, e.g. لاكن is not written out with the original alif found in the word pronunciation, instead it is written out as لٰكن.
(ــّـ) shadda: Gemination (doubling) of consonants
(—ٖ—) Arabic subscript alef (U+0656), KhaRRi Zeer
(_ٗ) Inverted Zamma , Ulti Pesh , Such as in : کٗرتا، مٗردا
(_٘) Ghunna, over the noon Tanween
ـٌ ـٍ ـً
(_ً) ݙو زبر
(ٍ—) ݙو زیر
(____) ݙو پیش

Punjabi Numbers:

Arabic 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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This article formerly appeared on ScriptSource.