ge used cannot serve the speaker's communicative needs. Usually, the limited proficiency of one speaker in the other speaker's language necessitates the use of code switching and the reformulation and repetition of utterances (Jan, 2003).
Sindhi is an Indo-European language. It is related to both Urdu and the languages of northern India (Sindhi language, 2004). Sindhi is not only spoken by over two million people in India, it is also spoken by about 17 million people in Pakistan and other Sindhis living in Oman, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The largest Sindhi-speaking city in the world is Hyderabad, Pakistan (Sindhi language, 2004).
In Pakistan, Sindhi has any number of specific dialects, including Kachchi, Lari, Lasi, Thareli, Vicholo or Central Sindhi, Macharia, Dukslinu or Hindu Sindhi, and Sindhi Musalamani or Muslim Sindhi. It is classified as not only an Indo-Aryan language, but as an Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Northwestern zone language (Sindi: A language of Pakistan, 2004).
Some southern Bhil groups speak dialects of Sindhi. For example, Katiavari Kachi has a 77 percent lexical similarity with Sindhi. According to Ethnologue.com (Sindhi: A language of Pakistan, 2004, p. 1),
100,000 speakers in rural Sindh came originally from the Kathiawar Peninsula in India. They are solidly Muslim, have widespread bilingualism in Sindh, and are almost completely assimilated with the Sindhi people. Some Hindu speakers are first language speakers, most are second language speakers. Shikari (hunter) Bhils are a nomadic group of 2,000 to 3,000 who live in southern Sindh Province, centered around Badin, and have adopted the Sindhi language. Some are Hindu, others are Muslim. They are not literate. Official language. Dictionary. Arabic script used in Pakistan. Muslim, Hindu, Christian (a few).
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