Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
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
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Gujarati
Marathi
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4236
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Assalam O Alaikum
Namaskar
Thank You
Meharbani
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
kaso assa?
Good Night
tava kia aayo
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Mehrbani
Chike
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
Maf kor
Bye
Allah Wahi
Adeus
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Antruz
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
Goa
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Vicholi
Not present
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lari
Not present
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
25.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
29.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
سنڌي
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
sindhi
konkani
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Konkanis
Origin
711 A.D
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Kokani
Language Position
5023
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sd
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
kok
ISO 639 2/B
snd
kok
ISO 639 3
snd
kok
ISO 639 6
snd
kok
Glottocode
sind1272
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-