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Sindhi is a language broadly spoken by the people of the historical Sindh region in the Indian subcontinent.Modern Sindhi is written in an extended Perso-Arabic script in Sindh province of Pakistan [1] and (formally) in extended-Devanagari by Sindhis in partitioned India. [2]
The name "Sindhi" is derived from the Sanskrit síndhu, the original name of the Indus River, along whose delta Sindhi is spoken. [5]Like other languages of the Indo-Aryan family, Sindhi is descended from Old Indo-Aryan via Middle Indo-Aryan (Pali, secondary Prakrits, and Apabhramsha). 20th century Western scholars such as George Abraham Grierson believed that Sindhi descended specifically ...
Indus Roman Sindhi Sindhi: سنڌو رومن سنڌي لپي is one system for the Romanisation of Sindhi. The Sindhi Alphabet has a rich and diverse set of sounds, and the mentioned below transliteration of the letters of Sindhi alphabet outlines the individual letters and their corresponding sounds.
During British rule in India, a variant of the Persian alphabet was adopted for Sindhi in the 19th century. The script is used in Pakistan and India today. It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Persian with digraphs and eighteen new letters ( ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ ) for sounds particular to Sindhi and ...
Khudabadi is one of the four scripts used for writing Sindhi, the others being Perso-Arabic, Khojki and Devanagari script. [2] It was used by Sindhi Workies (traders and merchants) to record their information and rose to importance as the script began to be used to record information kept secret from other non-Sindhi groups. [citation needed]
جهہ is the 13th letter of the Sindhi alphabet. It is represented by the two Unicode codepoints U+062C and U+0647. In the Indus Roman Sindhi romanization, it is represented as "JH".
گهہ (ghey), is the 43rd letter of the modified Perso-Arabic Sindhi alphabet. It is a combination of multiple letters and is used in Sindhi to represent the breathy affricate velar . [1] It is represented in the Sindhi Devanagari script by 'घ'. [2] For example, it is used in گهاگھہ meaning 'of old age'. [3]
Originally developed for Sindhi, it had also been used for Punjabi, Saraiki, and Gujarati as it spread, as well as for Arabic and Persian. Shifts in correspondences of letters most commonly included implosive letters for the tenuis consonants, and tenuis letters for aspirated stops.