Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Gujarati
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1024
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4223
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Assalam O Alaikum
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Meharbani
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
tava kia aayo
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Mehrbani
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Allah Wahi
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Vicholi
Wu
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lari
Yue
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
25.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
29.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
سنڌي
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
sindhi
chinois
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Han
Origin
711 A.D
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Standard Chinese
Language Position
501
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sd
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
zho
ISO 639 2/B
snd
chi
ISO 639 3
snd
zho
ISO 639 6
snd
zho
Glottocode
sind1272
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating