Talk:Sindhi language

Above arrangement of sindhi letters are incorrec. 160.238.79.223 (talk) 07:05, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

The "failed verification" tag in the Advocacy/Software section is supposed to link to this white paper: https://www.geocities.ws/moazakbar/PakLang.pdf I think this section needs more substantial revisions than just adding a citation, but at least it's a start. I'd add it myself, but I'm not extended-confirmed. Local Internet User (talk) 17:32, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

The IPA pronunciation for the language on the template is wrong; the given pronunciation is [sɪndʱiː], but this says the 'd' in Sindhi is alveolar, like the 'd' in English. The 'd' in Sindhi is d̪, and the full correct pronunciation would be [sind̪ʱiː]. I would have edited it myself but it is blocked to me. TheonlyPuneriintown (talk) 14:28, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

@Fdom5997: If there is a specific problem fix it rather than making wholescale reverts which restore absolutely incorrect and WP:POVPUSH info inserted by chronic linguistic sock accounts. Let us list them: the ambiguous term Prakrit should not be in the infobox at all (we don't know which Prakrit Sindhi derives from or if it even has a Prakritic stage), then there were completely made up stages [do not exist] of the language taken from the subsection titles (Early, Medieval, Early Modern), of course no linguist uses terms such as Sindhic which this sock network has tried to insert in numerous articles (like Punjabic). The whole lead again was rewritten and was an OR and POV mine (much effort spend tried to portray the language having a much larger area than it does; like the completely incorrect insertion of "diaspora" in the infobox when none of the censuses cover it).

There is absolutely no reason a sock's edits should be restored (WP:BANREVERT), I had even clearly listed which this very chronic network was (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PakistanHistorian). If you have a specific problem (I guess it was the colour issue which I have now corrected) just fix it rather than making wholescale reverts where socks are involved without leaving any edit summaries. Gotitbro (talk) 05:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

@2paknartopa: Please cite the quote from the citation that supports this addition of yours . HistoryofIran (talk) 11:12, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Someone to remove this sentence without any source, so I put this again. 2paknartopa (talk) 22:05, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Who did? Please show the diff. HistoryofIran (talk) 09:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

The sentence “It may be transitional with the Saraiki language of South Punjab and has variously been treated either as a dialect of Saraiki or as a dialect of Sindhi.” was removed by 93.38.135.182 without sources or discussion. I have restored it because it is supported by reliable sources and provides important context about the language’s classification. 2paknartopa (talk) 09:32, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. I've also restored the citation that the IP removed. HistoryofIran (talk) 15:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Sindhi (سِنڌِي‎, Sindhī, [sɪndʱiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken by the Sindhi people native to the Pakistani province of Sindh, where the language has official status. It constitutes the mother tongue of over 34 million people in Pakistan, primarily concentrated in Sindh; with historic communities in neighbouring Balochistan as well. It is also spoken by 1.7 million people in India, mostly by the descendants of partition-era migrants; with it having the status of a scheduled language in the country without any state-level official status. Sindhi is written in the Sindhi alphabet of the Perso-Arabic script, the sole official script for the language in Pakistan; while in India, both the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts are used.

With over 37 million native speakers, Sindhi is a major South Asian language, being the most-widely spoken language in southern Pakistan and third most-widely spoken in the entirety of Pakistan (after Punjabi and Pashto). The language is also geographically spread out of South Asia as it is spoken by the Sindhi diaspora, present around the world, primarily in the Gulf states, the Western world and the Far East.

Being classified under the Northwestern branch of the Indo-Aryan languages, Sindhi, apart from other Sindhic languages, is most closely related to Saraiki and Punjabi. It is descended from Shauraseni Prakrit, which gradually developed into Apabhraṃśa and then into Early Sindhi. Sindhi further developed during the Islamic Golden Age and the Islamic period in South Asia, expanding its vocabulary under the influence of Arabic and Persian; with the earliest written evidence of Sindhi as a language being a translation of the Quran, dated back to 883 AD. Middle Sindhi produced the language's greatest pieces of literature, including recorded forms of orally-transmitted folk tales; as well as Sufi literature, including Shah Jo Risalo, the single greatest piece of Sindhi literature, by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Modern Sindhi developed and was officially standardised and promoted during the British colonial era, replacing Persian as the primary official language of Sindh in 1848.

Sindhi is an inflected language, with five cases for noun, three for personal pronoun, four for third-person pronoun; eleven case markers; two genders (masculine, feminine); and two numbers (singular, plural). The base of its vocabulary is derived from Sanskrit in the form of Prakrit and Apabhraṃśa, while a significant portion of its high-register speech is derived from Persian and Arabic, along with a number of recent loanwords borrowed from English; and to a lesser extent from Portuguese and French. It has also had minor influence from and on neighbouring languages such as Saraiki, Punjabi, Balochi, Brahui, Gujarati, and Marwari.

Sindhi has a number of dialects and an established standard form, referred to as Standard Sindhi, which is based on the dialect of Hyderabad and surrounding areas of central Sindh. The primary regulatory agency for the development and promotion of the language is the Sindhi Language Authority, an autonomous institution of the government of Sindh. ~2025-41455-67 (talk) 11:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)