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