Punjabi is an Indo-European language spoken in India and Pakistan, as well as in other countries outside Asia, and is recognized as one of the fifteen official languages of India. Along with Lhanda and the Western Pahari (Himalayan) dialects, Punjabi is the only modern Indo-European language which has developed tonal contrast. Together with Indian and Pakistani varieties of Punjabi, this book attempts to account for the linguistic and sociolinguistic properties of British and Canadian varieties of the language.
