Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Gujarati
Hindi
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4236
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Assalam O Alaikum
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Meharbani
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
tava kia aayo
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Mehrbani
कृपया
Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Allah Wahi
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Siraiki
Doteli
Where They Speak
Upper Sindh
Nepal
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Vicholi
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Central Sindh
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lari
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
Nepal
How Many People Speak
25.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
29.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
سنڌي
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Sindhi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
sindhi
népalais
German Name
Sindhi-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[sɪndi]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Sindhi people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
711 A.D
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Sindhi
Nepali
Language Position
5059
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sd
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
snd
nep
ISO 639 2/B
snd
nep
ISO 639 3
snd
npi
ISO 639 6
snd
nep
Glottocode
sind1272
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative