Sindhi leid
| Sindhi | |
|---|---|
| سنڌي | |
| Native tae | Pakistan. An aa immigrant communities in Indie, Hong Kong, Oman, Philippines, Indonesie, Singapore, UAE, UK, USA, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka |
| Region | Sooth Asie |
Native speakers | 26 million (2007)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Arabic, Khudabadi alphabet, Laṇḍā scripts.[2] | |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Pakistan (Sindh)  Indie |
| Regulatit bi | Sindhi Leid Authority (Pakistan), Indian Institute of Sindhology (India) |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | sd |
| ISO 639-2 | snd |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:snd – Sindhilss – Lasisbn – Sindhi Bhil |
Sindhi /ˈsɪndi/[3] (Sindhi: سنڌي) is the leid o the historical Sindh region, spoken bi the Sindhi fowk. It is spoken bi 53,410,910 fowk in Pakistan an some 5,820,485 fowk in Indie. It is the offeecial leid o the province o Sindh. In Indie, Sindhi is ane o the scheduled leids offeecially recognized bi the federal govrenment. Abroad thare are some 2.6 million Sindhis.
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan leid o the Indo-Iranian branch o the Indo-European leid faimily. It haes influences frae a local version o spoken fairm o Sanskrit an frae Balochi spoken in the adjacent province o Balochistan.
Maist Sindhi speakers are concentratit in the Sindh province an in Kutch, Gujarat, Indie whaur Sindhi is a local leid. The remainin speakers in Indie are componed o the Hindu Sindhis who migratit frae Sindh an settled in Indie efter partition an the Sindhi diaspora warldwide.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
- ↑ "Script". Sindhilanguage.com. Archived frae the original on 5 October 2015.
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
External links
[eedit | eedit soorce] |
Sindhi edeetion o Wikipaedia, the free encyclopaedia |
- Sindhi Dictionary Archived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Type in Sindhi online Archived 2013-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Information an pronunciation o Sindhi alphabet (recordins) Archived 2013-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Aw aboot Sindhi leid an cultur
- Wals.info
- Sindhi computin resources at TDIL (Arabic script) Archived 2018-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Sindhi computin resources at TDIL (Devanagari script) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
- First an anly 24 oor internaitional Sindhi radio station online
- Sindhi newspapers gaspin for breath in Indie
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