Origins
The name "Sindhi" is derived from the Sanskrit síndhu, the original name of the Indus River, … See more

Sindhi is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh and one of the scheduled languages of India, where it does not have any … See more

Sindhi has many dialects, and forms a dialect continuum at some places with neighboring languages such as Saraiki and Gujarati. Some of the documented dialects of Sindhi are: See more

Sindhis in Pakistan use a version of the Perso-Arabic script with new letters adapted to Sindhi phonology, while in India a greater … See more

In Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.6% of the country's population as of the 2017 census. 29.5 million of these are found in Sindh, where they account for 62% of the total population of the province. There are 0.56 million … See more

Phonology
Sindhi has a relatively large inventory of both consonants and vowels compared to other Indo-Aryan languages. Sindhi has 46 consonant phonemes and 10 vowels. The consonant to vowel ratio is around average for the … See more

In 1972, an bill was passed by the provincial assembly of Sindh which saw Sindhi, given official status thus becoming the first See more