Old Punjabi

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Alternative forms

• Old Panjabi

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Proper noun

Old Punjabi

1. An early New Indo-Aryan language, ancestor of modern Punjabi, spoken from c. 1000–1600 CE which is found in certain hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib and poems of Fariduddin Ganjshakar.
   • 2000, Gopal Haldar, Languages of India‎^[1], →ISBN, page 149:

     The age of Old Punjabi: up to 1600 A.D. […] It is said that evidence of Old Punjabi can be found in the Granth Sahib.

   • 2013, Tej Bhatia, Punjabi, →ISBN, page XXV, →ISBN:

     As an independent language Punjabi has gone through the following three stages of development: Old Punjabi (10th to 16th century). Medieval Punjabi (16th to 19th century), and Modern Punjabi (19th century to Present).

   • 2021, Zhanna Chalabayeva, Red Indian Sun‎^[2], →ISBN:

     The Adi Granth is written in Old Punjabi language.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Punjabi terms