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Language Comparison: Swati vs Punjabi Shahmukhi
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Aspect | Swati | Punjabi Shahmukhi |
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Family | Niger-Congo, Bantu | Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
Speakers | Approximately 4.7 million | Approximately 130 million (includes speakers of both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts) |
Features | A Bantu language with rich noun class systems, agglutinative grammar, and click consonants; closely related to Zulu and other Nguni languages | 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. |
Countries | Eswatini (official), South Africa (recognized regional language) | Pakistan (primary script for Punjabi), India (minority use), and Punjabi-speaking diaspora communities |
Writing System | Latin script | Shahmukhi script (Perso-Arabic script with additional characters) |
Tonal | Yes, tones distinguish meaning | Yes, tonal distinctions are important for meaning |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses noun classes and concord systems | No, relies on word order and postpositions |
Derived From | Proto-Bantu, part of the Nguni subgroup | Perso-Arabic script, adapted for Punjabi phonology |
Loanwords | From English, Afrikaans, and Zulu | From Arabic, Persian, and English |
Dialects | Includes regional variations in Eswatini and South Africa, but generally mutually intelligible | Includes Majhi, Doabi, Malwai, Pothohari, and others. Standard Shahmukhi is based on the Majhi dialect spoken around Lahore. |
Alphabets | A, B, Bh, C, Ch, D, E, F, G, H, Hl, I, K, Kh, L, M, N, Nc, Nd, Ng, O, P, Ph, Q, S, Sh, Sw, T, Th, Ts, Tsh, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | 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 |
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