Sindhi language

Sindhi (English pronunciation: /ˈsɪndi/;[5] Naskh: سنڌي‎, Sindhi pronunciation: [sɪndʱiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language of the historical Sindh region in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, spoken by the Sindhi people. It is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh.[2][3][4] In India, Sindhi is spoken in Gujarat.[6][7] According to the preliminary results of Pakistan's 2017 census, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.57% of the country's population.[8] In India, it was the first language of 1.68 million as of the 2011 census.[9][lower-alpha 2]

Sindhi
سنڌي
Sindhi written in Perso-Arabic script
Native to	Pakistan and India
Region	Sindh (Pakistan) Kutch (India)
Ethnicity	Sindhis
Native speakers	c. 32 million (2017)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern Sindhi languages Sindhi
Writing system	Perso-Arabic (Naskh), Devanagari and others
Official status
Official language in	Pakistan  Sindh[2][3][4]  India[lower-alpha 1]
Regulated by	Sindhi Language Authority (Pakistan) National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (India)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	sd
ISO 639-2	snd
ISO 639-3	Variously: snd – Sindhi lss – Lasi sbn – Sindhi Bhil
Glottolog	sind1272  Sindhi sind1270  Sindhi Bhil lasi1242  Lasi
Linguasphere	59-AAF-f
The proportion of people with Sindhi as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census
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