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Sindhi Bhasha Divas (10 April)

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 the south. It is noteworthy that Sindh and Multan (Hindi speaking) have been a province during the Islamic reign and from 1843 to 1936, Sindh, being a part of Bombay province, has been in special contact with Gujarati.

Sindhi language in Pakistan is written in Nastaliq (i.e. Arabic script) whereas in India both Devanagari and Nastalik are used for it. The Siro dialect is called Siraiki which is spoken in the districts of Khairpur, Dadu, Ladkawa and Jacobabad in northern Sindh. There is an abundance of Baloch and Jat castes, hence it is also called Barachiki and Jatiki. In the south lies the dialect of Hyderabad and Karachi districts and in between these two lies the area of ​​Vicholi which is spread in and around Mirpur Khas. Vicholi is the common and literary language of Sindh. Outside Sindh there are composite dialects called Thadeli around the eastern border, Kachhi on the southern border and Lasi on the western border. Dhadeli (Dhar = land = desert) district extends to the border of Nawabshah and Jodhpur, in which there is a mixture of Marwari and Sindhi. Kutchi (in Kutch, Kathiawar) is a combination of Gujarati and Sindhi, and Lasi (Lasbela, in the south of Balochistan) is a combination of Balochi and Sindhi. In these three border dialects, the main element is of Sindhi itself. After the partition of India, the predominance of Sindhi has increased due to the settlement of Sandhi’s in the areas of these dialects. The area of ​​Sindhi language is 65 thousand square miles. All the words of Sindhi are vowels. In its sounds, Ga, and are additional and special sounds, in whose pronunciation along with the upper-caste sounds, the vocal system has to be closed by lowering the vocal system, which gives the effect of duality. This is a penetrating self-gram. The Sanskrit t class + r is accompanied by a slurred sound, as putta, or puttu (son), manda (mantra), ninda (sleep), doh (disgust). The combined consonant of Sanskrit and the dual form of Prakrit have become similar in Sindhi, but the vowel sound before that is not long such as dhatu (Hindi, bhat), jibha (jihva), khat (khatva, Hindi, khat), sutho (sushthu) . Often, in such a situation, the long vowel also gets lost, such as Digho (long), Sisi (head), Tiko (sharp). Just as from Sanskrit dattah and suptah, dato becomes suto, similarly, according to the law of analogy, kritah to keto, pitha to pito etc. have become forms, although the medium-ta-ha had disappeared. Like the Western Indo-Aryan languages, Sindhi also has a tendency to moderate the supernatural, such as Sada (Sardh, Hindi, Sade), Kano (Hindi, Khana), Kulan (Hindi, Khulna), Pucha (Sanskrit, Orchha).

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