Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India, Pakistan, Sindh
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Gujarati
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Sindhi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Assalam O Alaikum
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Meharbani
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Kehra haal aahin
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
tava kia aayo
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Sham Jo Salam
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Assalam o Alaikum
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Subho Bakhair
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Mehrbani
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Moon khe afsos aahe
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Allah Wahi
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Maaf Kajo
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Siraiki
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Upper Sindh
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Vicholi
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Central Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Lari
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Lower Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
29.00 million
  
37
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Not Available
  
French Name
arabe
  
sindhi
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Sindhi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
711 A.D
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Sindhi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
sd
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
snd
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
snd
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
snd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
sind1272
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available