Sindhi

Sindhi ( SIN-dee; Sindhi: سِنڌِي (Perso-Arabic) or सिन्धी (Devanagari), pronounced [sɪndʱiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is also an official scheduled language in India. Sindhi is written in the Perso-Arabic script in Pakistan and both the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts in India.

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).

Sindh was one of the first regions in the Indian subcontinent to encounter influence from Persian and Arabic following the Umayyad conquest in 712 AD. A substantial body of Sindhi literature subsequently developed, 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. The current regulatory agency for the development and promotion of the language in Sindh is the Sindhi Language Authority.

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