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#redirect{{Short [[Listdescription|Group of Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages]]}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Sindhi

| altname=Sindhic

|ethnicity=

|region=India, [[Pakistan]], [[Iran]], [[Oman]]

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]

|fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]

|fam4=[[Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages|Northwestern]]

|glotto=sind1279

|glottorefname=Sindhic

}}

The '''Sindhi languages''' or '''Sindhic''' include [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] and its dialects as well as [[Indo-Aryan languages]] closely related to it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 4.8 – Sindhic |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sind1279 |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref>

{{Sindhis}}

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! Language{{efn|Includes variants and dialects}}

!Speakers<ref>{{e19}}</ref>

!Region(s)

|-

| [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] || 38,000,000 || [[Sindh]], [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], various states of [[India]]

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| [[Kutchi language|Kutchi]] || 1,031,000 || [[Kutch]] and Sindh

|-

| [[Memoni language|Memoni]] || 1,800,000 || [[Kathiawar]] and Sindh

|-

| [[Luwati language|Luwati]] || 30,000 || [[Oman]]

|-

| [[Jadgali language|Jadgali]] || ? || [[Makran]] (Iran, Pakistan)

|-

| [[Kholosi language|Kholosi]] || 1,800 || [[Hormozgan province]] (Iran)

|}

[[Lasi dialect|Lasi]] and [[Sindhi Bhil language|Sindhi Bhil]] are sometimes added, but are commonly considered dialects of Sindhi proper.<ref>[http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Indogermanisch.doc Ernst Kausen, 2006. ''Die Klassifikation der indogermanischen Sprachen''] ([[Microsoft Word]], 133 KB)</ref> It is not clear if [[Jandavra language|Jandavra]] is Sindhi or [[Gujarati languages|Gujarati]]. Though [[Dhatki language|Dhatki]] is a [[Rajasthani languages|Rajasthani language]], it is heavily influenced by Sindhi and Kutchi.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} [[Khetrani language|Khetrani]] shares grammatical features with both Sindhi and [[Saraiki language|Saraiki]] but is not mutually intelligible with either.<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Elfenbein| first = Joseph H.| date = 1994| title = Notes on Khetrāni phonology| journal = Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik| volume = 19| pages = 71–82| issn = 0341-4191}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Sindhi language]]

* [[Gujarati languages]]

* [[Punjabi dialects and languages|Punjabi dialects]]

==Notes==

{{notelist}}

==References==

<references />

{{Indo-Aryan languages}}

[[Category:Sindhi language]]