Sindhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India
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Summary
Sindhi is a natural language[1]. Sindhi draws 3,954 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #87 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Pakistan[3], India[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Sindhi languages[6]
- Writing system: Sindhi Perso-Arabic script[7], Devanagari Sindhi[8], Gujarati[9], Khojki[10], Khudabadi[11]
- Part of: Schedule languages of India[12]
- Commons category: Sindhi language[13]
- Wikimedia language code: sd[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sindhi language[15]
- Language regulatory body: Sindhi Language Authority[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 24,600,000[17], 21,000,000[18], 25,000,000[19], 23,845,500[20]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Sindhi[24]
- Native label: سِنڌِي[25], सिंधी[26], સિંધી[27]
- Different from: Sindhis[28]
- Indigenous to: Andhra Pradesh[29], Bihar[30], Delhi[31], Gujarat[32], Maharashtra[33], Madhya Pradesh[34], Odisha[35], Rajasthan[36], Tamil Nadu[37], Uttar Pradesh[38], Balochistan[39], Sindh[40]
- Has phoneme: voiced bilabial implosive[41], voiced alveolar implosive[42], voiced palatal implosive[43], voiced velar implosive[44]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SND[45]
- Has grammatical case: direct case[46], oblique case[47], vocative case[48]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[49]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[50]
Why It Matters
Sindhi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Sindhi is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]