Sindhi Language Puns

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What does it mean when someone says "shodho ahi ya"?

Also I've heard people identifying as "panai" or "sherai", but I don't completely understand this categorisation. If it's geographical or by birth, what is it?

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Sindhi

Balochi

Punjabi

Pashto

Bengali

Dhatki

Memoni

Khowar

Burushaski

Gujarati

Please have a look at this Sindhi just like Kashmiri is not in a good state as a language Regards

A thread on the native script of Sindhi

My top picks:

Justice League: Tehreek-e-Insaaf

Silence of the Lambs: Bakrian di khamoshi

Inglorious Bastards: Sharamnak Haramzade

I heard Memoni for the first time recently and I understood alot of it like 60% to 70%. Honestly, I never knew how similar both languages were.

I've found when looking at sentences in any of these that there's usually a pattern and correspondence between words in the order they appear in a sentence, and I'm not an expert but there doesn't seem to be any new grammar introduced like new conjugations etc when converting Urdu/Punjabi

Rohan Murthy is apparently helping rally the funds for this great project, in association with Columbia University's Professor Sheldon Pollock. The project aims to bring to common access, the huge literary cosmos that India has generated over the centuries but still finds little mention when compared to Greek or English texts, largely due to the inaccesibility due to unawareness of Indian languages to non-Indian readers.

> Many classic Indic texts have never reached a global audience, while others are becoming increasingly inaccessible even to Indian readers. The creation of a classical library of India is intended to reintroduce these works to a new generation of readers.

The publishing partner is the phenomenal Harvard University Press. The methodology of presentation and the qwality of the stuff is also commendable.

> The text in the appropriate regional script will appear alongside the translation. An introduction, explanatory commentary, and textual notes will accompany each work with the aim of making these volumes the most authoritative and accessible available.

They have already published 5 volumes and are planning to come up with a lot more in future. And these are getting noticed too.

A literary colossus

The Many Strands of Indian Identity

More than 2,000 years of India’s lost literature is coming back into print.

Hey everyone!

I'm an ESL teacher at a High School in the United States. We have a student that has recently moved to Texas from Pakistan. He has indicated he only speaks Sindhi and does not understand Urdu. I've tried looking up information on Sindhi but it's difficult to find. I found the Sindhi version of Wikipedia, but that's about it. Everything else that I've found is in Devanagari script, although he can only read Arabic Script.

So, does anyone know of any resources they can point me to, or alternatively any specific names for the Arabic script version of Sindhi? (Pardon my total ignorance on the subject, but everyone else I've met from Pakistan has spoken Urdu or occasionally Arabic.)

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I figure there are some Sindhi experts here. What resources do you recommend for learning Sindhi?

I'm Sindhi myself, but my grandparents moved to Maharashtra during the partition, and so I only have a basic knowledge of Sindhi and would like to read, speak, and understand it better. Any resources you recommend (books or audio)?

From now on, these three languages, spoken by over 70% of Pakistan, will become secondary national languages, similar to the status of French in Canada.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is looking for native Kashmiri and Sindhi speakers to serve as part-time language proficiency testers. You must be based in the U.S., have valid work permission in the U.S., and attend one in-person training session, with all expenses paid by ACTFL.

At the in-person training, you’d learn how to use a rating scale of speaking proficiency. Then, once someone needs to be rated, you’d talk on the phone with someone who is learning Kashmiri or Sindhi and determine that person’s speaking rating. We don’t expect you’d have more than a few of these appointments per month, with each lasting about 30 minutes.

Attending an ACTFL language proficiency tester training is an opportunity to support learners of your native language, meet language professionals, and become involved in the work of a highly recognized foreign language association. There is payment available for undergoing this training; in addition, certified language testers are paid per test conducted.

Go to the application at https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/training-certification/ilr-opi-candidate-application for more information.

ACTFL is a US-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.