The earliest written reference to Sindhi dates back to the 2nd century AD. The rest represent a diaspora in United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, with smaller numbers in other countries. Of these 35 million live in the Sindh province of Pakistan, and 5 million in the states of Gujarat, Rajastan, and Maharashtra in India. Ethnologue estimate, based on 2001 census, puts the number of speakers at 21.3 million, whereas Wikipedia puts the number at some 42 million. There are different estimates of the number of speakers of Sindhi. Sindhi belongs to Northwestern group of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.
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