Separate word spaces from joining gaps

The layout reference distinguishes joining segments from words and describes gaps inside words after right-joining letters. It also discusses spaces as word-boundary cues. Apply that general script distinction to the separately checked Punjabi line above: keep its written word spaces, without splitting a word merely because some letters do not connect.[1]

Follow the complete source question

The displayed line is the first example under the dictionary’s interrogative where sense. It has four written words followed by a separate question mark. Follow the words in their published order, then locate the ending punctuation. Copy the full line once, preserving the source’s space before the question mark. Do not count that punctuation mark as an additional Punjabi word, and do not insert extra word spaces at the smaller gaps within the existing spellings.[2]

Check what the question asks

The entry identifies کتھے as where in this interrogative use, and supplies the English reading asking where your house is. Find the checked question word in the line, then return to the whole question before answering. Use this first example’s meaning rather than transferring the entry’s separately labelled rhetorical uses to it. The exercise checks comprehension of this actual source sentence, not your ability to invent a new question from an English template or infer an address that the source never provides.[2]

Your learning objective

Read the checked question and identify that it asks where the addressee’s house is.

Prerequisites: Complete Shahmukhi lesson 18 before this lesson. Level 19 · Shahmukhi.

Check your understanding

What does the checked question ask?

Answer: Where your house is. The checked line asks where your house is. The entry labels کتھے as interrogative where in this example.

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  1. W 3 C Arabic Script Language Enablement community; editor Richard Ishida. Arabic & Persian Layout Requirements ↗technical Group Draft Note · Source date: 2025-10-02 · Locator: Sections 4.3.5 and 5.2: joining segments versus word segmentation; section 7.2.2: gaps inside words following right-joining letters. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual dated document inspected. This is a work-in-progress layout reference focused on Standard Arabic/Persian, used only for the specified shared script/layout principle. Its language samples are not relabelled Punjabi. Actual Punjabi words and passages come from the separate dictionary.Return to Separate word spaces from joining gaps, paragraph 1 ↑
  2. Kanwal Bashir and Abbas Kazmi; Dunwoody Press, hosted by University of Chicago Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. Punjabi-English Dictionary: kitthe ↗authored Punjabi dictionary entry · Source date: 2012; digital data updated August 2023 · Locator: Printed p 447, کتھے entry, sense 1 where(interrogative), first complete question and supplied English translation. Accessed 2026-11-04.Rechecked the named dictionary entry and the exact first interrogative example, including the space before its question mark and the accompanying English meaning. Other senses are outside this exercise.Return to Practice exercise ↑Return to Script form 1 ↑Return to Script form 2 ↑Return to Follow the complete source question, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Check what the question asks, paragraph 1 ↑
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Record PH-LAN-0069 · English edition · human review not performed