Poses for photography
The Punjabis (Punjabi (Shahmukhi): پنجابی, Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) or the Punjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group associated with the Punjab region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent presently divided between Indian and Pakistani Punjab. They speak Punjabi, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.[20] The term Punjab literally means the land of five waters in Persian: panj ("five") āb ("waters").[21] The name of the region was introduced by the Turko-Persian conquerors[22] of the Indian subcontinent. The Punjabis are the 7th largest ethnic group in the world by total population.[citation needed]