He adds that it was during the British Era when Sindhi was declared the official language of Sindh. Muhammad Ali Manjhi, chairman of the Sindhi Language Authority, an autonomous institution in Sindh, told Geo News. “Historians are working to decode the script found from Mohenjo Daro,” Professor Dr. Linked to the Indus Civilization, the language’s first recorded script samples were found during excavation of the UNESCO heritage site of Mohenjo Daro in Sindh. Sindh is one of the world’s oldest languages, written in right-handed Perso-Arabic script. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warns that half of these languages will be extinct by the end of this century. “English is already digitized therefore it is secure” he said, “Including Sindhi in the UD framework means that it will now become a universal language and is on the path of digitalization.”Īccording to the United Nations, at least 43% of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Dootio adds that digitalization is depleting world languages faster than ever in human history.
#Sindhi culture registration#
Mazhar Ali Dootio, a computational linguist, who was among those who applied for Sindhi’s registration in the UD, told Geo News.ĭr. “Sindhi’s inclusion in UD digital platform is a major breakthrough,” Dr. Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, was also picked up by the project, but it was proposed for inclusion by contributors from India. It has, to date, selected 100 languages, including Sindhi out of the 6,000 human languages spoken globally.
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Universal Dependencies (UD), developed in 2005, is an ongoing project working to convert languages into machine-readable formats. In May, this year, the Sindhi language achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first language from Pakistan to be selected for digitization by the Universal Dependencies, a combined project of Stanford University and Google. This Sindh Cultural Day, the province has an additional reason to celebrate.