The Gurmukhi alphabet

This is the whole alphabet, laid out in the traditional Painti order that Punjabi children learn it in. Tap any letter for its Punjabi name, the sound it makes, and two real words that use it.

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Tap any letter for its name, its sound and example words.

The letters are only half of it. Punjabi vowels are written as small marks called matras, attached to a letter, and a consonant with no matra carries a built in "a" sound. That is why on its own reads "sa" rather than "s".

Learning to read it properly is a different job from looking a letter up. The course teaches these letters four at a time, in an order built for reading rather than for reciting, and the first three sets are free.

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