Sindhi: An Introductory Course for English Speakers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780977837281)

Sindhi is a major world language and one of the great literary languages of Islamic civilization, with more than 19 million speakers in Pakistan, more than a million in India and growing numbers in communities throughout the world. Yet this language of poetic masterpieces like the Risalo of the great sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, remains little known and neglected even among scholars of the Subcontinent and of Islam. Addleton and Brown's work for the first time offers linguists, students of religion, anthropologists, and second generation Sindhis in the West a practical and systematic introduction to the vocabulary and grammar of spoken and written Sindhi. First developed for English speakers living and working in southern Pakistan, Addleton and Brown's work has recently been revised and updated, and is now the best available pedagogical introduction to Sindhi for English speakers. Sindhi: An Introductory Course for English Speakers will be of interest not only to linguists and scholars, but to anyone interested in the culture, language and heritage of the Sindhi people.

Author: Hubert F. Addleton, Pauline a. Brown
ISBN-10: 0977837289
ISBN-13: 9780977837281
Publisher: Doorlight Publications
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.81d