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In Pakistan, Sindhi is the first language of 30.26 million people, or 14.6% of the country's population as of the 2017 census. 29.5 million of these are found in Sindh, where they account for 62% of the total population of the province.
Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'. [9 ...
7.1 Pakistan. 7.2 India. 8 Presidents. Toggle Presidents subsection. 8.1 Pakistan. ... The following is a list of notable Sindhi people who have origins in the Sindh ...
Sindhi Cultural Day was to be celebrated on December 6. Preparations for celebrating this day Sindhi people across the world especially from Sindh are engaged in purchasing traditional clothing; Ajraks and Sindhi Caps. [46] Distinguished Sindhi personalities are leading people and arranging rallies from small to bigger towns of the province. [47]
The roots of Sindhi culture go back to the distant past. Archaeological research during the 19th and 20th centuries showed the roots of social life, religion, and culture of the people of the Sindh: their agricultural practises, traditional arts and crafts, customs and traditions, and other parts of social life, going back to a mature Indus Valley Civilization of the third millennium BC.
The Sindhis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan. Sindhis are predominantly Muslim , but have a minority Hindu population, making up the largest Hindu minority population in Pakistan. [ 19 ]
Sindh (/ ˈ s ɪ n d / SIND; Sindhi: سِنْڌ ; Urdu: سِنْدھ, pronounced; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province 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 by population after Punjab.
These regional Sindhi people of Balochistan have many tribes/Castes and clans of their own. Most of them are Sindhi Muslim Sammat/Jamote, Jats, Jadgals, Meds, Rajputs, Gurjar, Khojas etc, [12] Hindu/Muslim Lohana, Bhatia, Brahmins, Kshtriyas, Shudras, other trading Hindu tribes, Rabari, and other tribal Hindu Sindhi tribes like Bheel, Meghwar, etc