Sindhi turns out to be second widely spoken language in Pakistan

As per Movehub, a website which is famous among people looking to move abroad, Sindhi remains the second-most widely spoken language in Pakistan.

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To facilitate the people thinking of moving abroad, the website has come up along with a map of the world where the names of states are replaced along with their ‘second languages’.

However, in most cases this shows the effects of colonization and cultural imperialism, in the case of Pakistan, it reflects post-independence policymaking.

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Sindhi is a regional language spoken which is not commonly spoken outside of Sindh, similar to Punjabi at some extent, the first language, which is mostly used in Punjab province.

Incidentally, Pakistan is one of the few countries where the official language is not the first one or even the second one. In Pakistan the official language is Urdu.

An Indo-Aryan language, Sindhi is spoken in both India as well as in Pakistan, along with some 75 million native speakers across the globe. It is the official language of Sindh province of Pakistan and is recognized by India as one of its scheduled languages.

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In the meantime, the influence of colonialism looks most telling in Africa, where local languages are in second place in many countries, behind the languages of their European colonizers.