Talk:Punjabi/Gurmukhi/First-row

Vowels after consonants
I have learnt several languages using scripts that are abigudas (Hebrew and Perso-Arabic). In my experience, I have found that vowels being introduced before the consonants is not a great idea for such scripts. The process of learning Punjabi for a non-native speaker would be considerably different from that of a child learning to speak. The child learns by instinct; he is already familiar with several consonant and vowel sounds. A non-native speaker, alien to the sounds, proceeds in a more systematic way. Thus, the methodology for teaching must be adaptive for such beginners. In my opinion, atleast a few of the rows 2-6 should be taught before touching upon the vowels. I'm sure you would remember how you were taught words like 'bargad', 'khatmal', 'achkan', etc. as a kid first, before moving on to long vowels one by one - beginning with 'baba', 'mala'; then 'cheeta', 'papeeta'; etc., and then the short vowels. What do you think?


 * I agree that presenting a full list of vowels just after introducing two consonants is not the best of ideas. Originally the consonants were introduced with the help of Punjabi words. A wikibookian Junsun suggested using words that the reader would already be familiar with. So Punjabi examples were substituted with English words, choosing examples that contained only letters already introduced besides the new letter being introduced. I am just thinking that vowels could perhaps also be introduced as they are encountered in the course of introducing other rows, selecting examples in a such a way that long vowels are introduced after all the short ones are done with. That will hopefully make life easier for the reader and help push vowels down the order by at least a few rows. I am open to all suggestions and alternatives. Jaspal Singh (discuss • contribs) 16:59, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Order
Should the vowels be in order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? --Titodutta (discuss • contribs) 18:51, 28 June 2016 (UTC)