Ans: Sindhi:
. The languages or dialects spoken by the people living on both banks of the
River Indus had different names in different areas, these were Punjabi,
Siraiki, and Sindhi, Remains of Harrappa and Mohenjodaro reveal that
people of ancient Indus Civilization had learnt the art of writing.
. After the advent of the Muslims, Arabic script was adopted for local languages.
Sindhi was the first South-Asian language the Holy Quran was translated into.
Chach Naama is the first living masterpiece of Sindhi literature.
Ismaelite preachers did great service to Sindhi language from the mid of the
. 11th century to the mid of 14th century. They devised a Sindhi script which
had 52 letters. The same script was used by the early Urdu writers. Amir
Khusro’s Khaliq Bari was written in the same script.
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (1689-1752) is the greatest Sindhi poet, his book
.”Shah Jo Risalo“ is his eternal masterpiece. Sachal Sarmast was another
contemporary of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. In addition to Sindhi he also
composed poetry in Hindi, Urdu, Siraiki, Punjabi and Persian, his couplets
number about nine lac.
In the same period a religious scholar and great prose writer Makhdoom
. Muhammad Hashim wrote 150 books in Sindhi and Persian. Aziz Ullah also
wrote in the same period.
. Mirza Qaleech Baig was a well-known Sindhi writer of the British period. He
produced 400 books. Sheikh Ayaz, Prof. Karim Bukhsh Nizamani and
Asadullah Bhutto are the contemporary leaders of Sindhi literature.
. Sindhi is the official language of the department of revenue, police and lower
judiciary in Sindh. Number of other languages like Urdu, Siraiki, Punjabi,
Pahari, Kachchi etc. are also spoken in the province of Sindh..