Countries
South Africa
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
India, Pakistan, Sindh
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Gujarati
Derived From
Dutch Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3264
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1742
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
Dankie
Meharbani
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
goeie nag
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
goeie more
Subho Bakhair
Please
asseblief
Mehrbani
Sorry
jammer
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
Totsiens
Allah Wahi
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Siraiki
Where They Speak
-
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Vicholi
Where They Speak
-
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Lari
Where They Speak
Namibia
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
7.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Sindhi
French Name
afrikaans
sindhi
German Name
Afrikaans
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Sindhi people
Origin
17th Century
711 A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Sindhi
Language Position
2350
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
snd
ISO 639 2/B
afr
snd
ISO 639 3
afr
snd
ISO 639 6
afrs
snd
Glottocode
afri1274
sind1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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