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Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 17 million people in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Sindhi is also a recognised official language of India, where it is spoken by approximately 1.2 Million members of an ethnic group which migrated from the province of Sindh, Pakistan during the partition of British India in 1947. The language can be written using Devanagari or the Arabic scripts.
Sindhi has its own script which is similar to Arabic but with a lot of extra accents and phonetic. There are 52 characters in Sindhi language. There are many words similar to traditional Indo Aryan languages like Ar compared to arable aratro etc like Hari (Meaning Farmer) similar to harvest and so on.
Sindhi was a very popular literary language back in 14th-18th century. This is when Sufis Like Shah Abdul Latif and numerous others narrated their theosophical peotry depicting the relationship of humans and God.
Sindhi language is taught as first language in Schools of South east Pakistan except in large metropolis like Karachi. Sindhi language has a vast vocabulary which made it a favourite of many writers and a lot of literature & poetry was written.
Qur'anThe Qur'an ( Arabic al-qurn also transliterated as Quran Koran and less commonly Alcoran is the holy book of Islam. Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and culmination of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad was first time translated into Sindhi in rhymatic format this was the first ever translation of Qur'an back in 12th century or earlier.