Editing Languages of Pakistan (section)

=== Punjabi ===
{{see also|Punjabi dialects and languages}}
[[File:Punjabi-speakers_by_Pakistani_District_-_2017_Census.svg|thumb|150x150px|<div style="text-align: center">The proportion of people with [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] as their [[mother tongue]] in each Pakistani [[Districts of Pakistan|District]] as of the [[2017 Pakistan Census]]</div>]]
[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] ({{Lang|pa|{{nq|پنجابی}}}}) is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]] primarily spoken in the [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab province]] of Pakistan, with the prominent dialect being the [[Majhi dialect|Majha dialect]], written in the [[Shahmukhi script]]. Punjabi is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan. It is spoken as a first language by 36.98% of Pakistanis.<ref name="2023 census" /> The language is spoken among a significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and the broader [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]] in its usage of [[Tone (linguistics)|lexical tone]].<ref>{{cite book|author-last = Bhatia|author-first = Tej| date = 1999| editor1-last = Lust| editor1-first = Barbara| editor2-last = Gair| editor2-first = James| title = Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages| chapter = Lexican Anaphors and Pronouns in Punjabi| page = 637| publisher = Walter de Gruyter| isbn = 978-3-11-014388-1}} Other tonal Indo-Aryan languages include [[Hindko]], [[Dogri language|Dogri]], [[Western Pahari]], [[Sylheti language|Sylheti]] and some [[Dardic languages]].</ref>