Sindhi to English dictionaries are bilingual dictionaries which provide

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equivalents of

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, without ...

words. Compilations of Sindhi and English terms were created for non-Sindhi speaking students in the early 1800s. ''The Journal of the Asiatic Society'' of Bengal, Calcutta published articles with vocabulary lists in 1836 and 1843. Sindhi was one of the languages included in Leech's 1943 vocabularies of Indic languages for the British government. In 1849, George Stack published a Sindhi to English dictionary consisting of 15,000 terms, followed in 1855 by an English to Sindhi dictionary with 17000 terms, in which he used the

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ...

script. Father G. Shirt published a Sindhi to English dictionary in 1879 in which he used

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and which became the basis for a number of other versions, including Parmanand Mewarm's 1910 and 1933 works. Beginning in the 1960s, Deccan College began work on a dictionary with both Devanagari and Arabic characters which included contemporary usage and cross references. Sirajul Haque Memon was the chief editor of the '' Oxford English-Sindhi Dictionary''. In addition to standard dictionaries, concise dictionaries have been compiled by Shahani. ''Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary'' is a reference work edited by A. D. Shah and Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti and published by Yadgar Publishers.It is a bilingual dictionary and contains over 8000 English meanings of Sindhi words.Yadgar Sindhi to English Dictionary - The Sindh Times Feb. 02, 2004
/ref> Electronic dictionaries and software that converts Sindhi into English and English into Sindhi have also been developed.

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