سندي (لغة)

يجب ألا يـُخلـَط بينها وبين Hindi.

Sindhi
سنڌي
Sindhi written in Perso-Arabic script
موطنها	پاكستان والهند
المنطقة	السند (پاكستان) گجرات (الهند)
العرق	Sindhis
الناطقون الأصليون	32ح. 32 مليون (2017)
عائلة اللغات	الهندو-اوروپية Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northwestern اللغات السندية Sindhi
نظام الكتابة	Perso-Arabic (Naskh), Devanagari and others
الوضع الرسمي
لغة رسمية في	پاكستان {{{السند}}} الهند
ينظمها	Sindhi Language Authority (Pakistan) National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (India)
أكواد اللغات
ISO 639-2	snd
ISO 639-2	snd
ISO 639-3	Variously: snd – Sindhi lss – Lasi sbn – Sindhi Bhil
Glottolog	sind1272  Sindhi sind1270  Sindhi Bhil lasi1242  Lasi
Linguasphere	59-AAF-f
The proportion of people with Sindhi as their mother tongue in each Pakistani District as of the 2017 Pakistan Census

Sindhi (English pronunciation: /ˈsɪndi/; بالسندية: سنڌي‎, قالب:IPA-sd) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the region of Sindh in the western part of the Indian subcontinent by the Sindhi people. It is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh and one of the scheduled languages of India, where it does not have any state-level status.

As of the 2017 census in Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.57% of the country's population. In India, it was the first language of 1.68 million as of the 2011 census.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 الوضع والاستعمال

نسبة السكان الذين يعتبرون السندي هي اللغة الأم في كل ضلع بپاكستان في تعداد پاكستان 2017

Prior to the inception of Pakistan, Sindhi was the national language of Sindh. Pakistan Sindh Assembly has ordered compulsory teaching of Sindhi language in all private schools of Sindh. According to the Sindh Private Educational Institutions Form B (Regulations and Control) 2005 Rules, "All educational institutions are required to teach children the Sindhi language. Sindh Education and Literacy Minister, Syed Sardar Ali Shah and Secretary School Education, Qazi Shahid Pervaiz has ordered to employ Sindhi teachers in all private schools in Sindh, so that this language can be easily and widely taught. Sindhi is taught in all province private schools that follow the Matric system and not the ones that follow the Cambridge system.

The Indian Government has legislated Sindhi as a scheduled language of India, making it an option for education. Despite lacking any state-level status, Sindhi is still a prominent minority language in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

There are many Sindhi language television channels broadcasting in Pakistan such as Time News, KTN, Sindh TV, Awaz Television Network, Mehran TV and Dharti TV. Besides this, the Indian television network Doordarshan has been asked by the Indian High Court to start a news channel for Sindhi speakers in India.

 التاريخ

Cover of a book containing the epic Dodo Chanesar written in Hatvanki Sindhi or Khudabadi script.

 الأصول

The name "Sindhi" is derived from Sanskrit sindhu, the original name of the Indus River and the surrounding region, which is where Sindhi is spoken.

Like other languages of the Indo-Aryan family, Sindhi is descended from Old Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) via Middle Indo-Aryan (Pali, secondary Prakrits, and Apabhramsha). 20th century Western scholars such as George Abraham Grierson believed that Sindhi descended specifically from the Vrācaḍa dialect of Apabhramsha (described by Markandeya as being spoken in Sindhu-deśa, corresponding to modern Sindh) but later work has shown this to be unlikely.

 السندي المبكر (القرون 10–19)

Sindhi entered the New Indo-Aryan stage around the 10th century CE.

Sindhi was the first Indo-Aryan language to be in close contact with Arabic and Persian following the Umayyad conquest of Sindhi in 712 CE. According to Sindhi tradition, the first translation of the Quran into Sindhi was completed in 883 CE in Mansura, Sindh. This is corroborated by the accounts of Al-Ramhormuzi but it is unclear whether the language of translation was actually a predecessor to Sindhi. The first available Sindhi translation was done by Akhund Azaz Allah Muttalawi (1747–1824 CE) and first published in Gujarat in 1870. The first to appear in print was by Muhammad Siddiq in 1867.

Medieval Sindhi devotional literature (1500–1843) comprises Sufi and Advaita Vedanta poetry. Sindhi literature flourished during the modern period (since 1843), although the language and literary style of contemporary Sindhi writings in Pakistan and India were noticeably diverging by the late 20th century; authors from the former country were borrowing extensively from Urdu, while those from the latter were highly influenced by Hindi.

 السندي الحديث (القرن 19–الحاضر)

When Sindh was occupied by British army and was annexed with Bombay, governor of the province Sir George Clerk ordered in 1848 that Sindhi be made the official language in the province. Sir Bartle Frere, the then commissioner of Sindh, issued orders on August 29, 1857 advising civil servants in Sindh to pass an examination in Sindhi. He also ordered Sindhi to be used in all official communication. A seven-grade education system commonly known as Sindhi-Final was introduced in Sindh. Sindhi Final was made a prerequisite for employment in the revenue, police and education departments.

In 1868, the Bombay Presidency assigned Narayan Jagannath Vaidya to replace the Abjad used in Sindhi, with the Khudabadi script. The script was decreed a standard script by the Bombay Presidency thus inciting anarchy in the Muslim majority region. A powerful unrest followed, after which Twelve Martial Laws were imposed by the British authorities.

 Phonology

Sindhi has a relatively large inventory of both consonants and vowels compared to other languages. Sindhi has 46 consonant phonemes and 16 vowels. The consonant to vowel ratio is around average for world's languages at 2.8. All plosives, affricates, nasals, the retroflex flap and the lateral approximant /l/ have aspirated or breathy voiced counterparts. The language also features four implosives.

 Consonants

Sindhi consonants

	Labial		Dental/ alveolar		Retroflex		(Alveolo-) Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m م mʱ مھ		n ن nʱ نھ		ɳ ڻ ɳʱ ڻھ		ɲ ڃ		ŋ ڱ
Stop/ Affricate	p پ pʰ ڦ	b ب bʱ ڀ	t ت tʰ ٿ	d د dʱ ڌ	ʈ ٽ ʈʰ ٺ	ɖ ڊ ɖʱ ڍ	tɕ چ tɕʰ ڇ	dʑ ج dʑʱ جھ	k ڪ kʰ ک	ɡ گ ɡʱ گھ
Implosive		ɓ ٻ		ɗ ڏ				ʄ ڄ		ɠ ڳ
Fricative	f ف		s س	z ز	ʂ ش				x خ	ɣ غ	h ھ
Approximant		ʋ و		l ل lʱ لھ				j ي
Rhotic				r ر		ɽ ڙ ɽʱ ڙھ

The retroflex consonants are apical postalveolar and do not involve curling back of the tip of the tongue, so they could be transcribed [t̠, t̠ʰ, d̠, d̠ʱ n̠ n̠ʱ ɾ̠ ɾ̠ʱ] in phonetic transcription. The affricates /tɕ, tɕʰ, dʑ, dʑʱ/ are laminal post-alveolars with a relatively short release. It is not clear if /ɲ/ is similar, or truly palatal. /ʋ/ is realized as labiovelar [w] or labiodental [ʋ] in free variation, but is not common, except before a stop.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 Vowels

The vowel phonemes of Sindhi on a vowel chart

The vowels are modal length /i e æ ɑ ɔ o u/ and short /ɪ̆ ʊ̆ ɐ̆/. (Note /æ ɑ ɐ̆/ are imprecisely transcribed as /ɛ a ə/ in the chart.) Consonants following short vowels are lengthened: [pɐ̆tˑo] 'leaf' vs. [pɑto] 'worn'.

 Vocabulary

According to historian Nabi Bux Baloch, most Sindhi vocabulary is from ancient Sanskrit. However, owing to the influence of Persian language over the subcontinent, Sindhi has adapted many words from Persian language and Arabic language. It has also borrowed from English and Hindustani. Today, Sindhi in Pakistan is slightly influenced by Urdu, with more borrowed Perso-Arabic elements, while Sindhi in India is influenced by Hindi, with more borrowed tatsam Sanskrit elements.

 اللهجات

لهجات السندي

The dialects of Sindhi include Siroli, Vicholi, Lari, Lasi, Kathiawari Kachhi, Thari or Thareli, Macharia, Dukslinu and Muslim Sindhi. The "Siroli or Siraiki" dialect in northern Sindh is distinct from the Saraiki language of South Punjab and has variously been treated either as a dialect of it, or as a dialect of Sindhi. The Sindhi dialects previously known as "Siraiki" are nowadays more commonly referred to as "Siroli".

 Writing systems

Sindhis in Pakistan use a version of the Perso-Arabic script with new letters adapted to Sindhi phonology, while in India a greater variety of scripts are in use, including Devanagari, Khudabadi, Khojki and Gurmukhi. Perso-Arabic for Sindhi was also made digitally accessible relatively earlier.

The earliest attested records in Sindhi are from the 15th century. Before the standardisation of Sindhi orthography, numerous forms of Devanagari and Laṇḍā scripts were used for trading. For literary and religious purposes, a Perso-Arabic script developed by Abul-Hasan as-Sindi and Gurmukhi (a subset of Laṇḍā) were used. Another two scripts, Khudabadi and Shikarpuri, were reforms of the Landa script. During British rule in the late 19th century, the Perso-Arabic script was decreed standard over Devanagari.

 Laṇḍā scripts

Laṇḍā-based scripts, such as Gurmukhi, Khojki and the Khudabadi script were used historically to write Sindhi.

 Khudabadi

Khudabadi or Sindhi
ISO 15924	Sind, 318
نطاق اليونيكود	U+112B0–U+112FF

The Khudabadi alphabet was invented in 1550 CE, and was used alongside other scripts by the Hindu community until the colonial era, where the sole usage of the Arabic script for official purposes was legislated.

The script continued to be used in a smaller scale by the trader community until the Partition of India in 1947.

ə	a	ɪ	i	ʊ	uː	e	ɛ	o	ɔ
k	kʰ		ɡ	ɠ			ɡʱ		ŋ
c	cʰ		ɟ	ʄ			ɟʱ		ɲ
ʈ	ʈʰ		ɖ	ɗ			ɽ	ṛ	ɳ
t	tʰ		d				dʱ		n
p	pʰ	f	b	ɓ			bʱ		m
j	r	l	ʋ
ʂ		s	h

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 Khojki

Khojki was employed primarily to record Muslim Shia Ismaili religious literature, as well as literature for a few secret Shia Muslim sects."Final Proposal to Encode the Khojki Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Std.dkuug.dk. Retrieved 1 March 2022.</ref>

 Gurmukhi

The Gurmukhi script was also used to write Sindhi, mainly in India by Hindus.

 Perso-Arabic script

During British rule in India, a variant of the Persian alphabet was adopted for Sindhi in the 19th century. The script is used in Pakistan and India today. It has a total of 52 letters, augmenting the Persian with digraphs and eighteen new letters (ڄ ٺ ٽ ٿ ڀ ٻ ڙ ڍ ڊ ڏ ڌ ڇ ڃ ڦ ڻ ڱ ڳ ڪ) for sounds particular to Sindhi and other Indo-Aryan languages. Some letters that are distinguished in Arabic or Persian are homophones in Sindhi.

جهہ	ڄ	ج	پ	ث	ٺ	ٽ	ٿ	ت	ڀ	ٻ	ب	ا
ɟʱ	ʄ	ɟ	p	s	ʈʰ	ʈ	tʰ	t	bʱ	ɓ	b	ɑː ʔ ∅
ڙ	ر	ذ	ڍ	ڊ	ڏ	ڌ	د	خ	ح	ڇ	چ	ڃ
ɽ	r	z	ɖʱ	ɖ	ɗ	dʱ	d	x	h	cʰ	c	ɲ
ڪ	ق	ڦ	ف	غ	ع	ظ	ط	ض	ص	ش	س	ز
k	q	pʰ	f	ɣ	ɑː oː eː ʔ ∅	z	t	z	s	ʂ	s	z
ي	ء	ھ	و	ڻ	ن	م	ل	ڱ	گهہ	ڳ	گ	ک
j iː	ʔ ∅	h	ʋ ʊ oː ɔː uː	ɳ	n	m	l	ŋ	ɡʱ	ɠ	ɡ	kʰ

Farsi (perso-Arabic) or Shikarpuri Sindhi.

 Devanagari script (16 century)

In India, the Devanagari script was used to write Sindhi during the 16th Century. A modern version was introduced by the government of India in 1748; however, it did not gain full acceptance, so both the Sindhi-Arabic and Devanagari scripts are used. In India, a person may write a Sindhi language paper for a Civil Services Examination in either script. Diacritical bars below the letter are used to mark implosive consonants, and dots called nukta are used to form other additional consonants.

अ	आ	इ	ई	उ	ऊ	ए	ऐ	ओ	औ
ə	a	ɪ	i	ʊ	uː	e	ɛ	o	ɔ
क	ख	ख़	ग	ॻ	ग़		घ		ङ
k	kʰ	x	ɡ	ɠ	ɣ		ɡʱ		ŋ
च	छ		ज	ॼ	ज़		झ		ञ
c	cʰ		ɟ	ʄ	z		ɟʱ		ɲ
ट	ठ		ड	ॾ	ड़		ढ	ढ़	ण
ʈ	ʈʰ		ɖ	ɗ	ɽ		ɖʱ	ɽʱ	ɳ
त	थ		द				ध		न
t	tʰ		d				dʱ		n
प	फ	फ़	ब	ॿ			भ		म
p	pʰ	f	b	ɓ			bʱ		m
य	र	ल	व
j	r	l	ʋ
श	ष	स	ह
ʂ	ʂ	s	h

 Gujarati script

The Gujarati script is used to write the Kutchi Language in India.

 Roman Sindhi

انظر أيضاً: Romanisation of Sindhi

The Sindhi-Roman script or Roman-Sindhi script is the contemporary Sindhi script usually used by the Sindhis during texting messages on their mobile phones.

 See also

• 1972 Sindhi Language Bill
• Institute of Sindhology
• Sindhi Transliteration
• Languages of India
• Languages of Pakistan
• Languages with official status in India
• List of Sindhi-language films
• Provincial languages of Pakistan
• Sindhi literature
• Sindhi poetry

 Sources

• Nihalani, Paroo (1974). "Lingual Articulation of Stops in Sindhi". Phonetica. 30 (4): 197–212. doi:10.1159/000259489. ISSN 1423-0321. PMID 4424983. S2CID 3325314.
• Addleton and Brown (2010). Sindhi: An Introductory Course for English Speakers. South Hadley: Doorlight Publications. Archived from the original on 2010-08-28. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
• Bughio, M. Qasim (January–June 2006). Maniscalco, Fabio Maniscalco (ed.). "The Diachronic Sociolinguistic Situation in Sindh". Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony. 1.
• Cole, Jennifer S (2001). "Sindhi". In Garry, Jane; Rubino, Carl (eds.). Facts About the World's Languages. H W Wilson. pp. 647–653. ISBN 0-8242-0970-2.
• International Phonetic Association. 1999. ISBN 0-521-63751-1.
• Khubchandani, Lachman M (2003). "Sindhi". In Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh (eds.). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. pp. 622–658. ISBN 978-0-415-77294-5.
• Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.
• Shackle, Christopher (2007). "Pakistan". In Simpson, Andrew (ed.). Language and national identity in Asia. Oxford linguistics Y. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922648-1.
• Trumpp, Ernest (1872). Grammar of the Sindhi Language (in الإنجليزية). London: Trübner and Co. ISBN 81-206-0100-9.
• Chopra, R. M (2013). "Persian in Sindh". The rise, growth, and decline of Indo-Persian literature (in الإنجليزية) (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Iran Culture House. OCLC 909254259.

 وصلات خارجية

• Sindhi Language Authority
• Sindhi Dictionary
• All about Sindhi language and culture at the Wayback Machine (archived أغسطس 31, 2015)
• Mewaram's 1910 Sindhi-English dictionary