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Sindhi
Sindhi

Persian
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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

India, Pakistan, Sindh
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

Interesting Facts

  • The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
  • In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Gujarati
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Prakrit Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

6432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4223
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Devanagari
Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Assalam O Alaikum
سلام

Thank You

Meharbani
متشکرم

How Are You?

Kehra haal aahin
چطور هستید?

Good Night

tava kia aayo
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Sham Jo Salam
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Assalam o Alaikum
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Subho Bakhair
صبح به خیر

Please

Mehrbani
لطفا

Sorry

Moon khe afsos aahe
متاسف

Bye

Allah Wahi
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Man tokhe prem karyan ti
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Maaf Kajo
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Siraiki
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Upper Sindh
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

25,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Vicholi
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Central Sindh
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

25,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Lari
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Lower Sindh
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

25.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

29.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.39 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

25.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

سنڌي
فارسی

Alternative Names

Sindhi
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

sindhi
persan

German Name

Sindhi-Sprache
Persisch

Pronunciation

[sɪndi]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Sindhi people
Persian people

History

Origin

711 A.D
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Sindhi
Persian

Language Position

5023
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Sindhi
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sd
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

snd
fas

ISO 639 2/B

snd
per

ISO 639 3

snd
pes

ISO 639 6

snd
pers

Glottocode

sind1272
fars1254

Linguasphere

No data available
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Sindhi and Persian Alphabets

Sindhi and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sindhi and Persian. In Sindhi Alphabets there are 64 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Sindhi and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sindhi and Persian languages. The Sindhi phonology consist Sindhi vowels and Sindhi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sindhi greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sindhi and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Sindhi and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sindhi and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Sindhi and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sindhi are spoken in different Sindhi Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sindhi vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sindhi dialects include: Siraiki, Vicholi. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Sindhi and Persian Speaking population

Sindhi and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sindhi and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Sindhi and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sindhi language is 0.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sindhi and Persian on Sindhi vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sindhi and Persian Language Codes

Sindhi and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sindhi and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.