Sindhi Community & Culture

Sindhi is a major language spoken in the western part of India and mainly in the province of Sindh. It is the mother tongue of the Sindhi Hindu community. Sindhi language is called Kutch language in Kutch district of Gujarat. And they speak this language in Kutch too. It is related to the Aryan language family at the level of the linguistic family, which includes Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati languages, including Sanskrit. According to the opinion of many recognized scholars, among the modern Indian languages, Sindhi is closest to Sanskrit as a dialect. About 70 percent of Sindhi words are of Sanskrit origin. Sindhi language, the modern Indo-Aryan language of Sindh region, which is related to Prakrit named Paishachi and Apabhramsa named Vrachad. Both these names indicate that the non-Aryan elements were already present in the origin of Sindhi, even though they were secondary due to Aryan influences. Balochi in the west of Sindhi, Lahandi in the north, Marwari in the east and Gujarati in