Editing Sindhi language (section)

{{Short description|Indo-Aryan language native to Sindh}}
{{Distinguish|Hindi}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Sindhi
| nativename       = {{flatlist|
*{{Transliteration|sd|Sindhī|i=no}}
*{{lang|sd|{{Naskh|سِنڌِي}}}}
*{{lang|sd-Deva|सिन्धी}}}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|sd|sɪndʱiː|IPA}}
| states           = {{unbulleted list|
*[[Languages of Pakistan|Pakistan]]
*[[Languages of India|India]]}}
| region           = [[Sindh]] and parts of [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], [[Kutch district|Kutch]] and [[Barmer district|Barmer]]
| ethnicity        = [[Sindhis]]
| speakers         = {{c.|32 million}}
| date             = 2011–2017
| ref              = 
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3             = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam4             = [[Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages|Northwestern]]
| fam5             = [[Sindhi languages|Sindhic]]
| script           = [[Arabic script]], [[Devanagari]] and others<ref name="in">{{cite journal|url =https://brill.com/view/journals/joss/1/1/article-p1_3.xml?language=en |title =Like Community, Like Language: Seventy-Five Years of Sindhi in Post-Partition India |year = 2021|journal =Journal of Sindhi Studies |doi =10.1163/26670925-bja10002 |access-date = 12 November 2021 |last1 =Iyengar |first1 =Arvind |last2 =Parchani |first2 =Sundri |volume =1 |pages =1–32 |s2cid =246551773 |doi-access =free | issn=2667-0925 }}</ref>
| nation           = *[[Languages of Pakistan|Pakistan]]
**[[Sindh]] (provincial official)<ref name="auto2">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/545670/Sindhi-language |title=Sindhi Language |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=December 29, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Official languages of India|India]] (scheduled language)<ref name="in"/>
| agency           = {{plainlist|
*[[Sindhi Language Authority]] (Pakistan)
*National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (India)}}
| iso1             = sd
| iso2             = snd
| iso3             = snd
| lingua           = 59-AAF-f
| image            = {{Photomontage|position=center
| photo1b       = Sindhi language.svg
| photo1a    = Sindhi.svg
 | spacing      = 15
 | color        = 
 | border       = 0
 | foot_montage = }}
| imagecaption     = Sindhi written in Perso-Arabic script and Devanagari
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = sind1272
| glottoname       = Sindhi
| map              = Sindhi-speakers by Pakistani District - 2017 Census.svg
| mapcaption       = The proportion of people with Sindhi as their [[mother tongue]] in each Pakistani [[Districts of Pakistan|District]] as of the [[2017 Pakistan Census]]
| map2             = Lang Status 99-NE.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Sindhi is not endangered according to the classification system of the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
}}
{{Contains special characters|Sindhi}}

'''Sindhi''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɪ|n|d|i}} {{respell|SIN|dee}};<ref>Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh</ref> {{Langx|sd|{{Naskh|سِنڌِي}}|link=no}} {{small|([[Perso-Arabic]])}} or {{lang|sd-Deva|सिन्धी}} {{small|([[Devanagari]])}}, {{IPA|sd|sɪndʱiː|pron}}){{efn|In less commonly used scripts: {{lang|sd-Guru|ਸਿੰਧੀ}} ([[Gurmukhi]]), {{lang|sd-Khoj|𑈩𑈭𑈴𑈝𑈮}} ([[Khojki]]), {{lang|sd-Sind|𑋝𑋡𑋟𑋐𑋢}} ([[Khudabadi]]).}} is an [[Indo-Aryan language]] spoken by more than 30 million people in the Pakistani province of [[Sindh]], where it has official status, as well as by 1.7 million people in India, where it is a [[Scheduled languages of India|scheduled language]] without state-level official status. Sindhi is primarily written in the [[Perso-Arabic]] script in Pakistan, while in India, both the Perso-Arabic script and [[Devanagari]] are used.

The earliest written evidence of modern Sindhi as a language can be found in a translation of the Qur’an into Sindhi dating back to 883 AD.<ref name="ELL" /> Sindhi was one of the first Indo-Aryan languages to encounter influence from [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Arabic]] following the [[Umayyad campaigns in India|Umayyad conquest]] in 712 AD. A substantial body of Sindhi literature developed during the Medieval period, the most famous of which is the religious and mystic poetry of [[Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai]] from the 18th century. Modern Sindhi was promoted under British rule beginning in 1843, which led to the current status of the language in independent Pakistan after 1947.