Punjabi (or ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, written in Gurmukhi style and pronounced as [pʌnˈdʒɑːbi]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by 130 million native speakers worldwide which makes it the 9th most widely spoken language in the world. It is one of the very few languages today to be written in two quite different and mutually unintelligible scripts – In India, Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script (left to right), while the Urdu script, also named Shahmukhi script (right to left), is used for writing Punjabi in Pakistan. Writing system: Gurmukhi (Brahmic), Shahmukhi (Perso-Arabic) Official language in: India, Pakistan