Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language centred on the Sindh province of southern Pakistan, where it holds official status and is taught in schools. More than 30 million people speak it, most in Pakistan, alongside a substantial community in India, where Sindhi is one of the 22 scheduled languages, and a worldwide diaspora that followed the partition of 1947. Two scripts are in use: an extended Perso-Arabic script in Pakistan, with 52 letters to cover the language's large sound inventory, and Devanagari in India. Sindhi is notable among South Asian languages for its implosive consonants, sounds produced with an intake of air that most neighbouring languages lack. Its literary tradition runs deep, crowned by the eighteenth-century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, whose verse collection the Shah Jo Risalo is still recited today.
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