It belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of languages of the Indo-European family, which we spoke of HERE. It is mainly spoken in the Punjab region (between India and Pakistan) and, globally, there are some 100 million speakers of this language. It derives from dialects such as Hindi and it basically employs the Gurmukhi alphabet for [...]
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The Punjabi Language
Friday, December 18th, 2009U.S. Government Looking for More Translators
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009As reported by the Washington Times, there is a worrisome shortage of translators in some languages that are crucial in the operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries of the region. The Director of the CIA, Leon E. Panetta, said that they are looking to double their staff of translators and linguistic workers for languages [...]
