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PANJABI (properly PANJABI')

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 679 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANJABI (properly PANJABI') , the See also:language of the Central See also:Punjab (properly Panjab). It is spoken by over 71,000,000 See also:people between (approximately speaking) the 77th and 74th degrees of See also:east See also:longitude. The See also:vernacular of this See also:tract was originally an old See also:form of the See also:modern See also:Lahnda, a member of the See also:outer See also:group of Indo-See also:Aryan See also:languages (q.v.), but it has been overlaid by the expansion of the midland Sauraseni See also:Prakrit (see PRAKRIT) to its east, and now belongs to the intermediate group, possessing most of the characteristics of the midland language, with occasional traces of the old outer basis which become more and more prominent as we go westwards. At the 74th degree of east longitude we find it merging into the modern Lahnda.

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