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    PHONEMIC DESCRIPTION AND CODIFICATION OF SHAHPURI WITH REFERENCE TO MAJHI - A DIALECT OF THE PUNJABI LANGUAGE
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Nadeem Chohan
    Punjabi, a language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan family of languages, is spoken in various nations around the globe, especially Pakistan and its province Punjab and Indian Panjab. It manifests itself through various dialects based on diversified geographical areas, clans, and contiguous dialects. The importance of Punjabi cannot be denied being the 10th most widely used language globally (Ghai & Singh, 2013). According to Ethnologue (2020), the number of Punjabi speakers is 125,326,840. In Pakistan, it is the language of the majority of the people residing in the most populous province of Pakistan, Punjab. In India, it is one of the 22 languages with official status. Unfortunately, no considerable work has been done on the phonology of its dialects.