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Old Punjabi
- An early New Indo-Aryan language, ancestor of modern Punjabi, spoken from c. 1000–1600 CE which is found in certain hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib and poems of Fariduddin Ganjshakar.
2000, Gopal Haldar, Languages of India[1], →ISBN, page 149:The age of Old Punjabi: up to 1600 A.D. […] It is said that evidence of Old Punjabi can be found in the Granth Sahib.
2013, Tej Bhatia, Punjabi, →ISBN, page XXV, →ISBN:As an independent language Punjabi has gone through the following three stages of development: Old Punjabi (10th to 16th century). Medieval Punjabi (16th to 19th century), and Modern Punjabi (19th century to Present).
2021, Zhanna Chalabayeva, Red Indian Sun[2], →ISBN:The Adi Granth is written in Old Punjabi language.