Langenesis

Indo-European family

Sindhi

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Sindhi (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan → Vedic Sanskrit → Sindhi.

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Speakers
32M (32,000,000)
ISO 639-3
snd
Glottocode
sind1272

Northwestern Indo-Aryan. Traditionally derived from Vrācaḍa Apabhraṃśa, which is barely attested, so no intermediate Middle Indo-Aryan node is modelled.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Sindhic. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 9

Also descended from Vedic Sanskrit.

Sources