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The history of Punjabi language is as old as the existence of homo-sapiensin Punjab. In the Age of Antiquity, thousands of years ago, different nationsand clans, like Dravid so on and so forth, co-existed and intermingled. As aresult, Punjabi language has deep imprints of the other language that existedthousands of years ago; currently considered dead languages. To bespecific, Pali, Persian and Arabic have linguistically shaped Punjabilanguage. At word level, we can easily identity common words of theabovementioned languages in Punjabi. The life span of a language is farmore than its literature. Punjabi, as a language, existed since the inceptionof time; however, its literary manuscripts can only be traced from c.10th to11th century. As a matter of fact, Persian language from 1021 to 1849remained an important language in Punjab; furthermore, it had alsoremained the official language of Punjab in the given span. Therefore,Persian deeply influenced Punjabi than other languages. This researcharticle investigates how different languages, since the time of antiquity,have influence Punjabi language with; at length, focus on the linguisticinfluence of Persian on Punjabi.Keywords: Punjab, Linguistic, influence, Punjab, Persian.