Sindhi language

Sindhi
Sindhi
سنڌي, सिन्धी
Native to	Pakistan, India. Also Hong Kong, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, UAE, UK, USA
Region	Sindh, Balochistan and Gujarat
Native speakers	54.3 million (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern Zone Sindhi; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic, Devanagari
Official status
Official language in	Sindh, Pakistan; Gujarat, India
Regulated by	Sindhi Language Authority (Pakistan)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sd
ISO 639-2	snd
ISO 639-3	snd

This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Sindhi language edition.

Sindhi (سنڌي, Sindhī) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Sindh region of the Indian subcontinent, which is a province of Pakistan. It is spoken by about 41 million people in Pakistan and 2 million in the Republic of India.^[1]

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Constitutionally recognised languages of India

Dialects

Sindhi has many dialects like:^[2]

Uttaradi: spoken in Uttar north region of Sindh.
Vicholi: spoken in central region of Sindh. It is the standard and literary dialect of Sindhi.
Lari: it is spoken in "Lar" region of Sindh.
Lasi: spoken mainly in Lasbela district of balochistan, also spoken in Kirthar mountains of Sindh, in Sindh it is called as Kohistani.
Siroli/Siraiki: it is spoken in small numbers throughout Sindh, but mainly in northmost Sindh districts along the border of South Punjab.
Thareli: spoken north eastern thar desert called Nara desert, but mainly spoken in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India.
Jadgali: this dialect of Sindhi is spoken in balochistan region of Pakistan and Iran, while some speakers are also found in Oman.

Cover of a book containing the epic Dodo Chanesar written in Hatvanki Sindhi or Khudabadi script.
The dialects of Sindhi language shown on map.
The vowel phonemes of Sindhi on a vowel chart
Farsi (perso-Arabic) or Shikarpuri Sindhi.