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- From: rzz@po.CWRU.Edu (Reema Z. Zuberi)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
- Subject: Re: Punjabi Dialect/Language
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 06:46:04 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- In his post, Aftab Ahmad bemoans the demise of the Punjabi
- language as he knows it. But I remember a Punjabi friend once
- telling me that Punjabi has no alphabet of its own (i.e. it uses
- the same alphabets as Urdu). If that is the case, then,
- technically, Punjabi was never really a language in the first
- place. By the way, I am acquainted with Pakistanis who can and do
- still speak "pure" Punjabi.
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- Sincerely yours,
- Reema Z. Zuberi
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- p.s. It's "Socrates", not "Socretese"
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- "I won my age and body-fat division." - Bill Clinton, after
- finishing with a modest time in a five-kilometer Thanksgiving Day
- race in Little Rock (Source: Newsweek, Dec. 7, 1992)
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