Sindhi language
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| Sindhi | ||
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| سنڌي सिन्धी Sindhī | ||
| Spoken in | Pakistan, India. Also Hong Kong, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, UAE, UK, USA | |
| Region | South Asia | |
| Total speakers | 54.3 million | |
| Ranking | 23 | |
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Writing system | Arabic, Devanagari | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | ||
| Regulated by | Sindhi Language Authority (Pakistan) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | sd | |
| ISO 639-2 | snd | |
| ISO 639-3 | snd | |
Sindhi (Arabic script: سنڌي, Devanagari script: सिन्धी, Sindhī) is the language of the Sindh region of South Asia, which is a province of Pakistan. It is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 41 million people in Pakistan, and 12 million in India.