|sprekers=129 miljoen<ref>{{en}} {{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pan |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition, Punjabi, Eastern |publisher=[[Ethnologue]] | accessdateaccess-date=9 Augustus 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430071239/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pan |archive-date=30 April 2020 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{en}} {{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pnb |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition, Punjabi, Western |publisher=[[Ethnologue]] | accessdateaccess-date=9 Augustus 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510113920/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pnb |archive-date=10 Mei 2020 |url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{en}} Skatting vir 2001 volgens George Cardona en Dhanesh Jain: ''General Introduction''. In: George Cardona en Dhanesh Jain (uitgewer): ''The Indo-Aryan Languages''. Routledge, London 2003. bl. 2.</ref>