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This is corroborated by the accounts of Al-Ramhormuzi but it is unclear whether the language of translation was actually a predecessor to Sindhi, nor is the text preserved. According to Sindhi tradition, the first translation of the Quran into Sindhi was initiated in 883 CE in Mansura, Sindh. Sindhi was the first Indo-Aryan language to be in close contact with Arabic and Persian following the Umayyad conquest of Sindh in 712 CE.

Much of this work is in the form of ginans (a kind of devotional hymn). Historically, Isma'ili religious literature and poetry in India, as old as the 11th century CE, used a language that was closely related to Sindhi and Gujarati. Literary attestation of early Sindhi is sparse. 20th century Western scholars such as George Abraham Grierson believed that Sindhi descended specifically from the Vrācaḍa dialect of Apabhramsha (described by Markandeya as being spoken in Sindhu-deśa, corresponding to modern Sindh) but later work has shown this to be unlikely. Like other languages of the Indo-Aryan family, Sindhi is descended from Old Indo-Aryan ( Sanskrit) via Middle Indo-Aryan ( Pali, secondary Prakrits, and Apabhramsha). The name "Sindhi" is derived from the Sanskrit síndhu, the original name of the Indus River, along whose delta Sindhi is spoken. History Cover of a book containing the epic Dodo Chanesar written in Hatvanki Sindhi or Khudabadi script. Modern Sindhi was promoted under British rule beginning in 1843, which led to the current status of the language in independent Pakistan after 1947. A substantial body of Sindhi literature developed during the Medieval period, the most famous of which is the religious and mystic poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai from the 18th century.

Sindhi was one of the first Indo-Aryan languages to encounter influence from Persian and Arabic following the Umayyad conquest in 712 CE. Sindhi has an attested history from the 10th century CE. In India, both the Perso-Arabic script and Devanagari are used. The main writing system is the Perso-Arabic script, which accounts for the majority of the Sindhi literature and is the only one currently used in Pakistan. It is also spoken by a further 1.7 million people in India, where it is a scheduled language, without any state-level official status. Sindhi ( English pronunciation: / ˈ s ɪ n d i/ Sindhi: سِنڌِي‎ ( Perso-Arabic) सिन्धी ( Devanagari) Sindhi pronunciation: ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters or other symbols instead of Sindhi script. This article contains Sindhi text, written from right to left with some letters joined.