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Punjabis

The Punjabi people (Punjabi: پنجابی, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Panjabi people) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. They mostly live in Pakistan and India. The Punjab region was the home to one of the oldest civilizations in the word, the Indus Valley Civilization. The Panjabi identity is usually cultural and linguistic, with Punjabis being those whose first language is Panjabi, an Indo-European language.

Panjabis
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
  • پنجابی‎
A Punjabi man - LIFE.jpg
Potrait of a Punjabi man in the Pakistani Punjab
Total population
c. 220 million[1][2][3][4]
Regions with significant populations
 Pakistan150,986,959 (2023)[a][6][7][8]
 India55,520,211 (2022)[b][3][c][10]
 Canada1,234,170 (2023)[11][d]
 United Kingdom700,000 (2006)[12]
 United States253,740[13]
 Australia132,496 (2017)[14]
 Iran64,000
 Malaysia56,400 (2019)[15]
 Philippines50,000 (2016)[16]
 Oman37,000
 New Zealand34,227 (2018)[17]
 Singapore26,000
 Mauritius26,000
 Norway24,000 (2013)[18]
 Bangladesh23,700 (2019)[19]
 Germany18,000 (2020)[20]
 Nepal10,000 (2019)[21]
Languages
Majority: Panjabi and its dialects
Religion
Pakistani Panjab:
Star and Crescent.svg Islam (60%), Khanda.svgSikhism (9%), Om.svg Hinduism
Indian Panjab:
Khanda.svg Sikhism (97.8%), Om.svg Hinduism (1.1%), Star and Crescent.svg Islam[22][23][24]
Related ethnic groups
Other Indo-Aryan peoples

Punjabis Media

  • The Punjab region, with its rivers.

  • Punjabis in Vancouver, 1908

  • Gurdwara Guru Ravidass, Nasinu, Fiji Established in 1939

  • Gurdwara Guru Ravidass Bhavan, Birmingham

  • Rig Veda is the oldest Hindu text that originated in the Punjab region.

  • Painting of a native lady of Amritsar, ca.1880's

  • Punjabi traditional dress in India

Notes

  1. ↑ Punjabis comprise 61.8% (129,986,959) of Pakistan's total population of 232,923,845 per 2023 estimate by the World Factbook.[5]
  2. ↑ Punjabis comprise 3% (42,520,211) of India's total population of 1,389,637,446 per 2023 estimate by the World Factbook.[9]
  3. ↑ This figure comprises speakers of the Punjabi language in India. Ethnic Punjabis who no longer speak the language are not included in this number.
  4. ↑ Statistic includes all speakers of the Punjabi language.

References

  1. ↑ Punjabi - Worldwide distribution.
  2. ↑ Punjabis at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Abstract Of Speakers' Strength Of Languages And Mother Tongues - 2011Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Pakistan Census 2017. www.pbs.pk. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  5. ↑ South Asia :: Pakistan — The World Fact book - Central Intelligence Agency. www.cia.gov. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  6. ↑ Ethnic Groups in Pakistan. Worldatlas.com (30 July 2019).
  7. ↑ Pakistan Census 2017. www.pbs.pk. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  8. ↑ Punjabi - Worldwide distribution.
  9. ↑ South Asia :: India — The World Fact book - Central Intelligence Agency. www.cia.gov. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  10. ↑ Punjabi - Worldwide distribution.
  11. ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Profile table Canada [Country]. www12.statcan.gc.ca (17 August 2022). Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  12. ↑ McDonnell, John. Punjabi Community. House of Commons (5 December 2006). Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  13. ↑ US Census Bureau American Community Survey (2009-2013) See Row #62. 2.census.gov.
  14. ↑ Top ten languages spoken at home in Australia.
  15. ↑ Malaysia. Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  16. ↑ Punjabi community involved in money lending in Philippines braces for 'crackdown' by new President (18 May 2016).
  17. ↑ New Zealand. Stats New Zealand. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  18. ↑ Strazny, Philipp. Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1 February 2013)Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45522-4.
  19. ↑ Bangladesh. Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  20. ↑ Deutsche Informationszentrum für Sikhreligion, Sikhgeschichte, Kultur und Wissenschaft (DISR). remid.de. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  21. ↑ National Population and Housing Census 2011. Unstats.unorg. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  22. ↑ C-1 Population By Religious Community - 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  23. ↑ Wade Davis. Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures (2007)National Geographic. p. 132–133. ISBN 978-1-4262-0238-4.
  24. ↑ Punjabis. Encyclopaedia.


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