India-Gujarat & Pakistan-Sindh. What were like together before 1947?

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A lot of Indians & Pakistanis probably don't realize that there are a lot of linguistic commonalities between Pakistan's Sindh province & India's Gujarat state. Pakistan has a fair share of Gujarati speakers in Karachi & other parts of Sindh. India also has a fairly decent amount of Sindhis in cities like Ahmedabad, Bombay, Bhopal etc. While Sindhi & Gujarati might not be that closely related, the border region of Pakistan(Sindh)-India(Gujarat) has the Kutchi language, which is spoken in the Kutch district of Gujarat & Sindh, Pakistan. Kutchi is supposed to be much more closely related to Sindhi than it is Gujarati.

Memoni language is a mixture of mainly Kutchi, Sindhi & a little bit of Gujarati. The Memoni language originated from Kathiawar, which I believe is close to the city of Rajkot, Gujarat now.

Anyways, people who are familiar with Gujarati &/or Sindhi. Do you think the two languages are completely different, or are there some similarities between the two? Also, why is Gujarati the most prominent language in the Indian state of Gujarat, when it seems to me that most languages historically spoken in the region were always some kind of amalgamation between various languages. Is Sindhi a dying language in India, & is it being spoken by less & less people over time?

Also, how different are the various dialects of Gujarati? I know people from Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Baroda, Surat, Junagarh have different accents & dialects; but I only speak a very basic level of Gujarati ("kem cho." "taaroo kya masla che?" "maaroo koi masla nadhi che". "ayaan, beejoo maa") that I picked up from my Indian friends, & I don't know the differences in various dialects & how different they are. And can anyone also explain the status of the Sindhi & Gujarati languages before 1947, in terms of the geography of the region (an old map would be great, when India-Pakistan had not been created)?

If anyone can hit on all these topics, that would be great.

 

[J.Dave]

Hi.
As you stated there are many sindhi people in India,mostly Hindus. Sindhi language is spoken as well, but gradually the new generation is losing interest. Sindhi is written here in devnagari script( the script in which Hindi is written).
I am a native Gujarati. Sindhi language is difficult for me to understand.( I haven't met a Sindhi who can actually speak Sindhi, but in my essay book Gujarati was translated in Hindi and Sindhi, so that's my source of information.) I haven't been to kutch either, but I have heard Kutchi language in films, it's pretty different from Gujarati spoken in rest of the Gujarat. So I can't explain similarly between these two languages.
You can roughly divide Gujarat state in 5 regions- Central, North, South, Kathiawar,Kutch.
Central Gujarat speak the dialect which you have heard mostly in Bollywood films. Standard/Pure Gujarati is spoken in Vadodara. In Ahmedabad ,Gujarati is rather urbanized.
North Gujarat- dialect spoken in North is similar to central,but it sounds rough and hallmark of North Gujarati dialect is replacement of sound ch and s by sound h.( will explain it later).
Kathiawar- it's not near Rajkot, but this region includes many districts including Rajkot. Kathiawari language has strong accent, and it's fun to hear it.It's a kind of poetic accent.
South Gujarati dialect is similar to central Gujarati dialect,but use of typical slangs(including f word) is pretty common. Parsi characters in Bollywood films speak this dialect.

an example of these dialects:
'Let's go' in different dialects:
Central: chalo
North: Halo, more commonly hendo
Kathiawar: Halo
South: hend.

 

[HariPrasad]

Gujarati was spoken there and 2 Gujarati news papers were published from the areaa

 

[Super Falcon]

Sindh and its culture is unchalangable in terms of how old sindh is sindh is far more old than india itself

Sindh hd some gujrati rajhistani maharashtra land in its arms

 

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