Sindhi

Indo-European (Indo-Aryan)30 million totalPerso-Arabic

RegionPakistan/India

FamilyIndo-European (Indo-Aryan)

Speakers30 million total

ScriptPerso-Arabic

TypeAbjad

About Sindhi

Spoken in Sindh, Pakistan, and by millions in India. Written in Perso-Arabic script in Pakistan and Devanagari in India. One of the scheduled languages of India. Tied for millennia to the Indus river valley. Rich Sufi poetic tradition, above all the verses of Shah Abdul Latif.

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