A regional name and a phonetic study
Shiv Sharma Joshi’s 1970 University of London thesis locates Doabi in the area between the Sutlej and Beas, describing the historical Jullundur Doab and districts including Hoshiarpur, Jullundur and Kapurthala. Those are the source’s historical place names and administrative frame. They identify the variety studied without being a claim that every speaker in those districts uses identical speech.[1]
The thesis distinguishes tone from intonation. Its analysis describes a three-term tonal system and separate intonation systems for final and non-final clauses. It also examines emphasis through duration, intensity and pitch, with instrumental measurements. A rising or falling voice can therefore perform different linguistic jobs: sentence organisation and emphasis should not automatically be confused with the tone associated with a word. The study supplies a phonetic account, rather than an audio lesson for every present-day Doabi community.[1]
Later recordings use a different sample
Arora and Singh’s later agricultural speech corpus includes twenty Doabi speakers within a one-hundred-person comparison of Doabi, Majhi and Malwi. It examines recordings of isolated words with tools for measuring pitch and other acoustic properties. This purpose and sample differ from Joshi’s phonological analysis; neither study’s measurements should be treated as a fixed voice profile for an entire region.[2]
Written Doabi
The 2015 Malwai–Doabi conversion study treats written vocabulary and word structure as another part of variation. Its rule-based system uses dictionaries alongside morphological conversion rules, rather than assuming that any sentence can be converted by changing its script. The paper explicitly includes Doabi in the computational task.[3]
This offers a useful distinction between spoken variety, written form and writing system. A text-processing experiment selects particular contrasts for a defined purpose; it is not a comprehensive inventory of Doabi grammar or a judgement that regional speech needs correction.[3]
Sources & notes
Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.
- Shiv Sharma Joshi; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A phonetic and phonological study of the use of pitch and other associated features in Panjabi (Doabi) ↗linguistics thesis · Source date: 1970 · Locator: 1970 title page; abstract printed pp.2–3; chapterI printed pp.6–7; chapterII distinction between tone and intonation. Accessed 2026-11-05.The actual thesis scan was inspected earlier, including the regional description and analytical scope. The current SOAS repository metadata and abstract were checked through indexed text on 5 November 2026; local access returned 403 and the former eprints host failed DNS. The repository record offers a PDF, but download access may vary. The original thesis date is 1970, separate from later reproduction and deposit dates.Return to A regional name and a phonetic study, paragraph 1 ↑Return to A regional name and a phonetic study, paragraph 2 ↑
- Shipra J. Arora and Rishipal Singh. Database Creation and Dialect-Wise Comparative Analysis of Prosodic Features for Punjabi Language ↗scholarly study · Source date: 2019-03-19 (online); 2020 journal volume · Locator: Abstract; section3 Text and Speech Corpora Collection; section4 Corpus Features. Accessed 2026-11-01.Full public article inspected in the publisher’s HTML. Agricultural isolated-word corpus and the stated speaker sample only; introductory generalisations about farmers, literacy or scripts are not adopted.Return to Later recordings use a different sample, paragraph 1 ↑
- Arvinder Singh and Parminder Singh. Punjabi Dialects Conversion System for Malwai and Doabi Dialects ↗scholarly study · Source date: 2015-10 · Locator: PDF pp.1–4, abstract and methodology sections4.1–4.3, bilingual dictionaries and conversion rules. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual PDF inspected. The conversion experiment is scoped to the described material; performance is not a judgement of dialect correctness. The publisher DOI is 10.17485/ijst/2015/v8i27/81667.Return to Written Doabi, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Written Doabi, paragraph 2 ↑
Record PH-LAN-0008 · English edition · human review not performed