Sindhi romanisation or Latinization of Sindhi is a system for representing the
Sindhi language
Sindhi ( ; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a scheduled language, witho ...
using the
Latin script
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.
In
Sindh
Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...
,
Pakistan
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the Sindhi language is written in modified persio-Arabic script and in India it is written in Devanagari (Hindi) Script.
Sindhis living in Pakistan as well as Sindhis living in
India
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are able to speak and understand each other, however, they cannot write to each other because of the two different scripts.
Indus Roman Sindhi Script gives ability to Sindhis and would allow Sindhis all over the world to communicate with each other through one common script.
"Indus Roman Sindhi" system is different than Haleem Brohi's Roman Sindhi (Haleem Brohee jee Roman Sindhee). Indus Roman Sindhi is developed by Fayaz Soomro.
Indus Roman Sindhi
Indus Roman Sindhi sd, سنڌو رومن سنڌي لپي is one system for the romanisation of Sindhi.
Alphabet chart
Elongation chart
The alphabet of persio-Arabic Sindhi script is highly context sensitive. Many of the letters of Sindhi alphabet share a common base form diacritical marks and diacritical points place either above or below.
Basics
*"Alif" ( sd, ا), (In Romanized Sindhi: alif is "A"). For example: Ambu/Anbu ( sd, انبُ)
"Alif" ( sd, ا) is the first letter of Sindhi alphabet and it is a base letter of Sindhi alphabet. Though in
Sindhi
Sindhi may refer to:
*something from, or related to Sindh, a province of Pakistan
* Sindhi people, an ethnic group from the Sindh region
* Sindhi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
People with the name
* Sarkash Sindhi (1940–2012 ...
there are no vowels but the below mentioned letters and compound letters considered almost as vowels in
Sindhi language
Sindhi ( ; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a scheduled language, witho ...
and all of them are formed with the help of alif ( sd, ا).
Roman Sindhi Vowels/رومن سنڌي سُر/ सुर
अ आ इ ई उ ऊ
A aa i ee u oo
اُو اُ اِي اِ آ اَ
ए ऐ ओ औ अं ह
e ai o au a'n h
ھَ اَنّ اَؤ او اَي ئي
In Indus Roman Sindhi, English alphabet's letter "A" stands for ''alif'' ( sd, ا), "AA" stants for ''alif mand aa'' ( sd, آ) and ''alif zabar'' ( sd, اَ) and ''ubho alif'' (vertical alif).
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Consonants
( sd, ب) is the second letter of Sindhi alphabet.
In Indus Roman Sindhi, English alphabet's letter "B" stands for ( sd, ب). For example: Badak ( sd, بَدَڪ)
The chart shows different sounds of "B" ( sd, ب)
*Peculiar sounds of Sindhi language
There are six peculiar sounds in Sindhi language, four of them known as ''"Chaar choosinna aawaz"'' ( sd, چار چوسڻا آواز) (sounds made with back of the tongue) and two other peculiar sounds, known as Nasalization Consonant or Nasal sounds or "''Noonaasik or Nikwaan (weenjann) aawaz (Phoneme)''" ( sd, نوناسڪ يا نڪوان ”وينجڻ“ آواز).
*The chart of four peculiar ''Chaar choosinna aawaz'' sounds
*The chart of two peculiar 'Nasal sounds' or "Noonaasik or Nikwaan (weenjann) aawaz" sounds
When you make a speech sound, air usually passes through your oral cavity and comes out of your mouth. But you can also direct the flow of air through your nose, making a nasal sound.
To get the air to come out of your nose, you lower your velum. This opens up your nasal cavity and lets the air out through your nostrils. You can let air out through your nose and mouth at the same time: This makes a nasalized sound.
Nasal consonants are made by closing the mouth at specific places of articulation and opening the velum. The resulting nasal consonants are called stops because the oral cavity is closed, but air still flows out through the nasal cavity.
This Sindhi alphabet's letter ( sd, ٻ) is one of four peculiar "chaar choosinna aawaz" sounds and in Indus Roman Sindhi it stands as "BB". For example: Bbakiri ( sd, ٻَڪِري)
*The chart shows different sounds of "BB" ( sd, ٻ)
Multi purpose use of "D"
The Roman letter "D" is some times used as Aspirates in Roman Sindhi. For example: d', dd and some times with the combination of letter "H", suppose: dh or ddh to make peculiar sounds of Sindhi language.
"A" is used as "Alif" and as Zabar (diacritical uppar mark) in Roman Sindhi
A table that shows the examples of Zabar (diacritical upper mark) in Roman Sindhi
Romanization of Sindhi words
There is a difference between transliteration and Romanisation. The present modified persio-arabic script of Sindhi language is highly context sensitive. Many of the letters of Sindhi alphabet share a common base form diacritical marks and diacritical points place either above or below (Zer, Zabar and peshu). Therefore, through transliteration, the Romanization of Sindhi words is not possible. Therefore, each and every word should be Romanized separately from persio-arabic script into Roman Sindhi script.
See also
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Romanizations of Chinese
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Romanizations of Hindi
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Romanization of Russian
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Romanization of Japanese
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Romanization of Arabic
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Romanization of Hebrew
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Romanization of Greek
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History
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Romanization of Ukrainian
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Romanization of Persian
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Romanization of Bulgarian
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Romanization of Armenian
References
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Sindhi language
Romanization of Arabic
Romanization of Brahmic