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Sindhi Language



Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority

Interesting Facts
  • The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
  • In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.

Similar To
Gujarati

Derived From
Prakrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
64 37

Phonology

How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
42 31

Scripts
Arabic, Devanagari

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Assalam O Alaikum

Thank You
Meharbani

How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin

Good Night
tava kia aayo

Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam

Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum

Good Morning
Subho Bakhair

Please
Mehrbani

Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe

Bye
Allah Wahi

I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti

Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo

Dialects

Dialect 1
Siraiki

Where They Speak
Upper Sindh

How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00 26

Dialect 2
Vicholi

Where They Speak
Central Sindh

How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00 23

Dialect 3
Lari

Where They Speak
Lower Sindh

How Many People Speak
25.00 81

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
29.00 million 37

Speaking Population
0.39 % 36

Native Speakers
25.00 million 32

Second Language Speakers
25.00 million 27

Native Name
سنڌي

Alternative Names
Sindhi

French Name
sindhi

German Name
Sindhi-Sprache

Pronunciation
[sɪndi]

Ethnicity
Sindhi people

History

Origin
711 A.D

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian

Branch
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi

Standard Forms
Sindhi

Language Position
50 47

Signed Forms
Signed Sindhi

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
sd

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
snd

ISO 639 2/B
snd

ISO 639 3
snd

ISO 639 6
snd

Glottocode
sind1272

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Origin of Sindhi language

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Sindhi writing system

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