In fact, it is a marvelous example of the complex society of Sindh. It is thus a nod to history that one of the best specialists of Sindhi studies was named… Baloch. Born in 1917 in the small village of Jaffar Khan Laghari, in Sanghar District, he belonged to the Baluchi tribe of the Lagharis, but he nevertheless adopted the name of Baloch.

Continue reading Scripting change in Indian Sindhi → In India, where a debate has raged on whether to write Sindhi in the Perso-Arabic or Devanagari script (Asani 2003 Daswani 1979 Iyengar 2017), the aforementioned changes in phonology may impact orthography in both scripts, leading to potential pedagogical issues. These phonological changes in spoken Sindhi can have grapholinguistic implications, namely, implications for Sindhi orthography. The Old chronolect is most evident in the speech of Sindhi speakers aged 60 years or older, while the New chronolect is characteristic of the speech of those aged 40 years or younger. Bughio (2001) terms these chronolects ‘Old’ and ‘New’, respectively. These changes involve both vocalic as well as consonantal transformations, resulting in the emergence of two different chronolects (Frellesvig 1996), or varieties spoken by the older and younger generations. “Studies have shown that spoken Sindhi, both in Pakistan and India, has been undergoing phonological changes from generation to generation, from at least the mid-20th century (Bughio 2001 Iyengar 2017). The orthographic impact of intergenerationalīy Arvind Iyengar, University of New England, Australia

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