Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 03:38:17 EST

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    On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Aditya Gokhale wrote:

    > 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.

    Thanks for the explanation, but I was wondering about the official ISO 639
    spelling.

    roozbeh



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