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Sindhi ( , Devanagari script: सिन्धी, Sindhī) is the language of the Sindh region of Pakistan that is spoken by the Sindhi people. In India, it is among 22 constitutionally recognized languages, where Sindhis are a sizeable minority. It is spoken by 53,410,910 people in Pakistan, according to the national government's Statistics Division. It is the the second most spoken language in all of Pakistan and is the official language of the province of Sindh. It is also spoken in India by some 5,820,485 speakers in 2011 and abroad there are some 2.6 million Sindhis, out of which approximately 60% are Pakistani and 40% are Indian. The government of Pakistan issues national identity cards to its citizens only in two languages, Sindhi and Urdu. It is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It has influences from a local version of spoken form of Sanskrit and from Balochi spoken in the adjacent province of Balochistan. Most Sindhi speakers are concentrated in the Sindh province and in Kutch, India where Sindhi is a local language. The remaining speakers in India are composed of the Hindu Sindhis who migrated from Sindh and settled in India after partition and the Sindhi diaspora worldwide. |