Added Panjabi/Punjabi/Gurmukhi support to polyglossia

[punjab]

Submitting Panjabi (10th most spoken language) support to polyglossia.

[jspitz]

Thanks, that's great. Could you also add documentation?

[punjab]

Hi @jspitz I have added Gurmukhi/Panjabi documentation as well (except Acknowledgments as that is there for the team to act upon). Let me know if I can be of any further help. And thanks for maintaining Polyglossia!

[jspitz]

Hi @jspitz I have added Gurmukhi/Panjabi documentation as well

Perfect. Thank you so much.

(except Acknowledgments as that is there for the team to act upon). Let me know if I can be of any further help.

It will be my pleasure to credit you there. I'll also add documentation for \panjabinumber

And thanks for maintaining Polyglossia!

Thanks for your valuable contribution!

[jspitz]

I have a question: The more common English spelling seems to be Punjabi (rather than Panjabi). Since we use English language expressions in polyglossia: Should we use that?

[jspitz]

See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Punjabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-more-appropriate-spelling-of-the-Punjabi-language-Punjabi-or-Panjabi

(and I have a patch for that ready, so no need for you to change that yourself)

[punjab]

Hi @jspitz - It is a hotly debated topic - the result of random transliteration in 1920's among english writers using Punjabi, Panjabi or even Panjaabi as the name of the language. This is from a paper I published many years ago

"Panjabi (or Punjabi) is the spoken language of people originating in the areas of Pun- jab. It is spoken by more than 90 million people[21, 27] in some form. According to Shackle(2003)[28], the word Panjabi was referred to as a language for the first time by Grierson[19]. In his 1916 Linguistic Survey of India [19], he coined the term “Panjabi” as the language of eastern side of Panj-Aab, or land of five rivers, and distinguished it from languages spoken in Western parts of Indo-Aryan territory, which he referred to as Lehandi [19]."

https://www.scribd.com/document/455130962/Arvinder-Kang

[jspitz]

Thanks for the explanation. So what shall we do? The "u" spelling seems to be preferred in most sources I consulted, but I don't want to open a sensitive language-political can.

[jspitz]

I went with Punjabi now, following the more common English spelling (61f5e4acbfba4f2a2f60)