Sindhi Language: Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India
Sindhi ( سنڌي, Sindhī) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Sindh region of South Asia, which is a province of Pakistan.
It is spoken by about 41 million people in Pakistan and 2 million in the Republic of India.
| Sindhi | |
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| سنڌي,, Sindhī | |
| Native to | Pakistan, India. Also Hong Kong, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, UAE, UK, USA |
| Region | Sindh, Balochistan and Gujarat |
Native speakers | 54.3 million |
Indo-European
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| Arabic, Devanagari | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Sindh, Pakistan Gujarat, India |
| Regulated by | Sindhi Language Authority (Pakistan) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | sd |
| ISO 639-2 | snd |
| ISO 639-3 | snd |
| Part of a series on | |
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| Constitutionally recognised languages of India | |
| Category | |
| Scheduled Languages | |
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| Related | |
| Official languages of India |
Dialects
Sindhi has many dialects like:
- Uttaradi: spoken in Uttar north region of Sindh.
- Vicholi: spoken in central region of Sindh. It is the standard and literary dialect of Sindhi.
- Lari: it is spoken in "Lar" region of Sindh.
- Lasi: spoken mainly in Lasbela district of balochistan, also spoken in Kirthar mountains of Sindh, in Sindh it is called as Kohistani.
- Siroli/Siraiki: it is spoken in small numbers throughout Sindh, but mainly in northmost Sindh districts along the border of South Punjab.
- Thareli: spoken north eastern thar desert called Nara desert, but mainly spoken in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India.
- Jadgali: this dialect of Sindhi is spoken in balochistan region of Pakistan and Iran, while some speakers are also found in Oman.
Related pages
References
Other websites
- Sindhi Tutorial
- SindhiLanguage.com
- Sindhi Script History and Script
- Daily Sindh Hyderabad A Newspaper in sindhi Language Archived 2012-12-09 at Archive.today
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