What's special about the Sindhi language and why you should care
What's special about the Sindhi language and why you should care
What's special about the Sindhi language and why you should care
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Is <strong>Sindhi</strong> <strong>the</strong> purest of <strong>the</strong><br />
Indo-Aryan <strong>language</strong>s?<br />
• Linguists would reject this notion– <strong>the</strong>re is no<br />
<strong>language</strong> spoken by humans which resists<br />
change. Not today, not ever.<br />
• <strong>Sindhi</strong> is described as retaining more of <strong>the</strong><br />
features of ancient Prakrit than o<strong>the</strong>r modern<br />
Indic <strong>language</strong>s.<br />
• The conservatism of Sindh could be attributed to<br />
<strong>the</strong> geographic isolation of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Sindhi</strong>-speaking<br />
region. Similarly for Kashmiri, <strong>Sindhi</strong>’s closest<br />
cousin in <strong>the</strong> Indo-Aryan family.<br />
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II. <strong>Sindhi</strong> scripts<br />
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