Countries
India, Pakistan
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Gujarati
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
6421
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4219
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalam O Alaikum
Bwakeye
Thank You
Meharbani
Urakoze
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
Urakomeye?
Good Night
tava kia aayo
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
Mwaramutse
Please
Mehrbani
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
Ndasubiza
Bye
Allah Wahi
N’agasaga
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Vicholi
Ha
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lari
Shubi
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
25.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
29.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
سنڌي
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
sindhi
rundi
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
711 A.D
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Kirundi
Language Position
5086
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
sd
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
run
ISO 639 2/B
snd
run
ISO 639 3
snd
run
ISO 639 6
snd
run
Glottocode
sind1272
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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