Editing Punjabi language (section)

== Vocabulary ==
Being an [[Indo-Aryan language]], the core vocabulary of Punjabi consists of [[tadbhava|tadbhav]] words inherited from [[Sanskrit]].<ref name="Frawley2003">{{cite book |last1=Frawley |first1=William |title=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set |date=2003 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-513977-8 |page=423 |language=en |quote=Hindus and Sikhs generally use the Gurmukhi script; but Hindus have also begun to write Punjabi in the Devanagari script, as employed for Hindi. Muslims tend to write Punjabi in the Perso-Arabic script, which is also employed for Urdu. Muslim speakers borrow a large number of words from Persian and Arabic; however, the basic Punjabi vocabulary is mainly composed of ''tadbhava'' words, i.e. those descended from Sanskrit.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhatia |first1=Tej K. |title=Punjabi: A Conginitive-descriptive Grammar |date=1993 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-00320-9 |page=xxxii |language=en |quote=Punjabi vocabulary is mainly composed of ''tadbhav'' words, i.e., words derived from Sanskrit.}}</ref> It contains many loanwords from [[Persian language|Persian]] and Arabic.<ref name="Frawley2003"/>