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Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.
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 other Indo-Aryan languages. Some letters that are distinguished in Arabic or Persian are homophones in Sindhi.
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]
In contemporary Sindh, the Sammat castes are regarded as second in rank to Sayeds and other castes of Arab descent. [8] Man who worked very hard to revive Sammat as Chairman Sammat tanzeem, was Late, Bahawal Khan Unar, who dedicated much part of his life to the cause he was committed to from early 80s to late 90s, since he passed away in 1998 ...
Sindh (/ ˈ s ɪ n d / SIND; Sindhi: سِنْڌ ; Urdu: سِنْدھ, pronounced; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province by population after Punjab.
All the Jats of Sindh are muslims except one tribe of "Jātia" which is a hindu tribe of Thar desert. The Jats of Sindh are mainly divided into three sections: First are Larai Jutts/Jat (Sindhi: جت) known for their ancient ancestral camel-herding profession, [4] [5] they speak Juttki/Jatki a very old dialect of Sindhi language, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai has also written some poems in Juttki ...
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 ...
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