How Important is Punjabi Language for Sikhs?

[YOYO29]

On 9/12/2017 at 9:41 PM, Dsinghdp said:

I can read write Hindi/Urdu which are basically the same when spoken.

 

wow.How much time did it take you to learn Urdu ? I have been thinking to learn Gurmukhi for a long time.And now a days i'm free so i'm planing to give it a go,anyone here can tell me how much time is required to learn Gurmukhi on average ?  

[Dsinghd]

1 hour ago, YOYO29 said:

wow.How much time did it take you to learn Urdu ? I have been thinking to learn Gurmukhi for a long time.And now a days i'm free so i'm planing to give it a go,anyone here can tell me how much time is required to learn Gurmukhi on average ?  

Www.ukindia.com - is the website I learnt Hindi and Urdu from. It took a few weeks.

[BhForce]

1 hour ago, YOYO29 said:

wow.How much time did it take you to learn Urdu ? I have been thinking to learn Gurmukhi for a long time.And now a days i'm free so i'm planing to give it a go,anyone here can tell me how much time is required to learn Gurmukhi on average ?  

Well, if you can learn Urdu, you should be able to easily learn Gurmukhi.

The reason is that Urdu is a square peg fitted into a round hole. I.e., the Urdu (Arabic) alphabet was created for Arabic, not Punjabi.

By contrast, Gurmukhi was specially created for Punjabi, and it includes vowel marks, too. For the most part (once you learn some simple rules), you speak words as they are written.

[YOYO29]

4 hours ago, Dsinghdp said:

It took a few weeks.

That's cool.I will definitely give a shot to Gurmukhi.

 

4 hours ago, BhForce said:

By contrast, Gurmukhi was specially created for Punjabi, and it includes vowel marks, too. For the most part (once you learn some simple rules), you speak words as they are written.

Hmm.Do you know best site for learning Gurmukhi online ? 

[simran345]

8 minutes ago, YOYO29 said:

That's cool.I will definitely give a shot to Gurmukhi.

 

Hmm.Do you know best site for learning Gurmukhi online ? 

There's quite a few sites, but I've picked out some I thought that may help. 

@dallysingh101 paji used to talk about this:

http://www.sikhawareness.com/topic/14814-learning-to-read-write-gurmukhipanjabi-tips-on-getting-started/

 

Sikh channel - Learn Gurmukhi with kids:

http://www.sikhchannel.tv/catch-up/learn-gurmukhi/

 

Bhai Jagraj Singh:

 

Sangat TV:

 

PS: ( Not seen Dally or MisterrSingh pajis on the forum in a while. Are they still members? )

[YOYO29]

thank you pehnji

[Singh1989]

Very! No read/ write Punjabi means Guru Granth Sahib cannot be understood. Guru Granth Sahib can ONLY and ONLY be read shudh if it in Punjabi. And if one has the ability to understand Punjabi then when listening to Gurbani it can b easily understood, if not all of it.

To understand all of it one must take the farther step of listening to Guru Granth Sahib katha or read teekakars of Gurbani.

[simran345]

5 hours ago, YOYO29 said:

thank you pehnji

You're welcome penji. 

[dallysingh101]

On 9/15/2017 at 5:53 PM, simran345 said:

 

PS: ( Not seen Dally or MisterrSingh pajis on the forum in a while. Are they still members? )

I'm still about bhen ji. I'm just busy as hell with work. And frankly speaking, when I read so many people defending their backwards -a55 penduistic casteism here recently  I realised that in reality I'm mainly dealing with lost causes here. 

[simran345]

1 hour ago, dallysingh101 said:

I'm still about bhen ji. I'm just busy as hell with work. And frankly speaking, when I read so many people defending their backwards -a55 penduistic casteism here recently  I realised that in reality I'm mainly dealing with lost causes here. 

Good to hear from you paji. It's best to be busy with something that's worthwhile, rather than spending time with narrow minded people. I know what you mean, it's 2017, and people are still talking about castes as if it's anything important or woweee to be proud of. Never mind, it's their loss, if they want to be full of ego over it. I don't even bother participating now, where caste threads are so twisted, you'd think they were still living in the 1950's. ??.  They'll probably realise when God graces them, that Sikhi has no place for it. But nothing can be forced upon nobody, I just leave them to it, to play their pianos, the tunes got boring now anyways and the lyrics don't match ?