Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

From: Aditya Gokhale (aditya@cdacindia.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 03:28:08 EST

  • Next message: Roozbeh Pournader: "Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?"

    Hello,
        It is like "Panama" where we have 'pa' strong sound of 'a' and "Sun"
    where even though we have a sound of 'a' we still spell it with 'u'. So both
    the spellings (Punjabi and Panjabi) are correct. As far as Punjabi / Panjabi
    goes, in India it is spelled as Punjabi and in Pakistan it is spelled as
    Panjabi.

    Aditya Gokhale.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
    To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:30 PM
    Subject: Panjabi or Punjabi?

    >
    > I just found a difference between online reference on official ISO 639
    > names of the "pa" language.
    >
    > <http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt> mentions:
    >
    > pa Punjabi
    >
    > while <http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html> says:
    >
    > Panjabi pendjabi pan pa
    >
    > Which spelling is the official ISO 639 one?
    >
    > roozbeh
    >

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