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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 [156] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official institutional status and has plans to being promoted further. [157] It is also spoken by a further 4.8 million people in India, where it is a scheduled language , without any state-level official status.
Pages in category "Sindhi tribes" ... Lasi people; List of Pakistani family names; List of Sindhi tribes; M. Machiyar; Mahar (tribe) Mahesar; Mahtam; Majoka; Malkani ...
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
Many Sindhis are Muslim, and to a lesser extent Hindu.Their given names are generally of Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Indian origin. The full name have first name, middle name (usually of the father name or a Religious personality) and last name (surname / caste), some also use titles at beginning of first names.
Pages in category "Sindhi people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 245 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Sindhi Pathan (Sindhi: پٺاڻ) or Pathans in Sindh are the name of ancestral Pashtun communities living in Sindh for centuries that have adopted the norms and culture of Sindh. Many bear the tribes Tareen, Naghar, Agha, and Kakar. The vast majority of Sindhi Pathans originate from Quetta and southern Afghanistan, and a few come from Khyber ...