Randeep speaking Powadhi Punjabi

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Punjabi is spoken by more than 100 million people, primarily in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India, as well as by diaspora communities worldwide. A literary language since at least the 12th century, Punjabi is written with two writing systems: a Brahmic script known as the Gurmukhī alphabet, and a variant of Arabic script known as the Shahmukhi. An Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European family, it is related to hundreds of other languages, including Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali. Read more on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1Tc8nRk.

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