Sindhi

About Sindhi

Sindhi is spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, mainly in the province of Sindh in Pakistan, where it is an official language. It is also spoken by communities in India, where it is one of the 22 languages listed in the Constitution.

In Pakistan Sindhi is written from right to left in an Arabic-based script with extra letters for Sindhi sounds, while in India it is also written in Devanagari. Sindhi has implosive sounds, made by drawing air inward, which few other languages of South Asia have.

FamilyIndo-European, Indo-Aryan
Native speakersabout 24.6 million (2019)
Official inPakistan (province of Sindh)
ScriptArabic-based Sindhi script, Devanagari in India
Codessd (ISO 639-1), snd (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Ethnologue (2019), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

Scroll to Top