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Learn Punjabi. Join a Skype Punjabi Language Club If you are interested in learning conversational Punjabi on Skype please contact SPN forum member DeepSingh ji by private message. Skype has been used before to help people learn and perfect their skills in many languages. On Skype you can...

Punjabi gets status of second language in West Bengal Perneet Singh Tribune News Service <table align="right" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="280"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%">...

On learning a language An Introduction to Punjabi: Grammar, Conversation and Literature By Gurinder Singh Mann, Gurdit Singh, Ami P. Shah, Gibb Schreffler and Anne Murphy. Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, Patiala. Pages 354. Rs 700. Reviewed by Tejwant Singh Gill THIS book is a...

Respect people’s language of worship G Vinod | March 16, 2011 Rakyat will doubt the government's sincerity in respecting religious freedom and the mode of worship, says consultative council PETALING JAYA: The government should respect religious freedom and the language used for worship...

Language researchers chart vanishing voices - video In a video produced by Cambridge University, anthropologist Mark Turin discusses his work helping speakers of Thangmi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal. He aims to document disappearing languages, most of which haven't been...

Estimated by experts to be the thirteenth most spoken language on the planet, Punjabi is currently considered to have more than 90 million native speakers. It is the official language of the Sikhs, a monotheistic religion popular on the Indian subcontinent, and all official Sikh rituals and...

I thought this was very amusing as we all imitate accents on some level either consciously or subconsciously!! A University of Manchester study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that imitating someone who speaks with a regional or foreign accent may actually help you...

Thundering Words: The Martial Language of Nihangs NIHANGSINGH.ORG Like many nomadic communities, the Nihang Singhs have through the centuries developed a distinguishable dialect. This language is historically known as GarrGaj Bole ('The Thundering Language') of the Khalsa. It combines a...

SAT SHRI AKAL JI firstly im very sory for my bad language.. i have seen that todays youth does not like punjabis as the part of there company.... mostly of our punjabi brothers do not speak punjabi at all.... in my own college i have asked to many of my frnds that you r punjabi guys then why...

http://www.{censored}/news.php?news=9143 The Punjab Assembly today unanimously passed two resolutions, seeking second language status for Punjabi language in states having significant Sikh population and restoring employee’s ratio in Union Territory of Chandigarh. Nine states have...

PunjabNewsline.com - Haryana grants second language status to Punjabi Haryana grants second language status to Punjabi CHANDIGARH: Removing a long drawn grievance of Punjabi population in Haryana, the Haryana Government has granted second language status to Punjabi in the state, which has a...

Sikhs strive to keep language alive There's a lasting link between the 35-character alphabet used to write Punjabi and the Sikh religion. The Sikh scriptures and the Punjabi language of many Sikhs were written in a script known as Gurmukhi. So to be fully initiated into...

by Raul Corazzon - Download this page as Logic and Language in Ancient China A survey of Contemporary Studies INTRODUCTION THEORIES ABOUT LANGUAGE IN CLASSICAL CHINA "Technically, classical China had semantic theory but no logic. Western historians, confusing logic...

Toronto, Sep 26 (IANS) Punjabi is set to become the fourth largest spoken language in Canada by 2011 after English, French and Chinese, according to Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The minister made the announcement Friday night after inaugurating the seventh Spinning Wheel Film...

Re: Nihangs in History I do not how many of you know it. Nihangs do not purchase purchase tickets for travel in trains. Although there is no written rule, the railway authorities do not demand tickets from them. Nihangs also have a very charming and disarming vocabulary of their own. For eg...

The following list of flowers comes mainly from that original book but has been augmented to include some common flowers of today as some of those from yesteryear are unknown. Enjoy this glimpse into the past and keep this in mind the next time you send or receive flowers! The Forgotten...

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future. The darkest moment of the night is just before dawn. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. All people smile in...

There appears to be a lot of confusion regarding Gurmukhi and Punjabi. The assumption a lot of people seem to make is that there is a language called Punjabi (what we use everyday) and there is the language called Gurmukhi - the language used to write the Guru Granth Sahib. So is there...

This article just filed by Associated Press describes a new direction in policy for US Defense. The Pentagon is now considering the employment of legal resident aliens with professional expertise in medical fields and those with language skills that are strategically important. "Struggling to...

The Language of the Khalsa Also known as : GarrGaj Bola (The Thundering Language), the language of the Khalsa is another example of Charrdi-Kala in the Panth. Containing a mixture of Panjabi, Farsi, and Brij Bhasha, the Bola's characteristics are uplifting, buoyant, cheerful, and often...