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Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 17 million speakers in the south-eastern province of Sind in Pakistan and about 2.8 million people in India.
The Sindhi language first appeared in writing in the 8th century AD. Sindhi literature, in particular lyric poetry, began to appear towards the end of the 15th century. During the 19th century, the Landa script was adapted to write Sindhi.
The modern Sindhi abjad is based on the version of the Perso-Arabic script used to write Urdu and was adopted, under British influence, in 1852. In India Sindhi is also written with the Devanagari script.
Corrections provided by Lateef Sagar Shaikh
Source: www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/sindhi-alphabet.html
National Council for the Promotion of the Sindhi Language
http://www.ncpsl.org
Free Arabic fonts for Sindhi
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_SindhiA.html
http://www.voiceofsindh.net/fonts.htm
Free Devanagari fonts
http://www.kiranfont.com
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