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What's special about the Sindhi language and why you should care

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Proto-Indo-European (c. 3,000- 4,000 BCE)<br />

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Indo-Iranian<br />

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Iranian Indo-Aryan<br />

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(c. 600 BCE)<br />

(c. 1500 BCE)<br />

Dates mark<br />

earliest written<br />

attestations<br />

Old Persian Sanskrit-Prakrit<br />

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Mod. Persian Mod. <strong>Sindhi</strong><br />

(c. 200 BCE)<br />

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Proto-Indo-European (c. 3,000- 4,000 BCE)<br />

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(c. 100 CE)<br />

Germanic Indo-Iranian<br />

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| Iranian Indo-Aryan<br />

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Dates mark<br />

earliest written<br />

attestations<br />

(c. 500 CE) (c. 600 BCE) (c. 1500 BCE)<br />

Old English Old Persian Sanskrit-Prakrit<br />

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Mod. English Mod. Persian Mod. <strong>Sindhi</strong><br />

(c. 1500 CE)<br />

(c. 200 BCE)<br />

May 2003 Jennifer Cole 8<br />

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