Limitations of Usage of Aspirated Letters and their Solutions
Abstract
Sindhi language writing system is based on Arabic script, known as
“Sindhi Arabic”. It has 52 letters in its alphabet. This was created in
1853 by an official team of the Government, then “Sir Bartle Freire”
the commissioner of Sindh recognized Sindhi as the official language
for the Sindh province in his governance
(ڀ، ڦ، ٿ، ٺ، ڇ، ڌ، ڍ، ک، جهه ۽ گهه) letters Aspirated 10 are There
included in this alphabet. These letters have different ways of
writing, i.e. 8 letters (ک، ڍ، ڌ، ڇ، ٺ، ٿ، ڦ، ڀ (have been made by the
support of the dots and remaining 2 (گهه ۽ جهه (are compound letters,
which have been made per international standard of aspiration. In
fact, Sindhi language has 20 Aspirated letters, from which
mentioned above 10 letters are part of the alphabet, but other 10 (
) still need to be redefined per
international standards.
The 2 )گهه ۽ جهه )standard aspirated letters are included in the
Sindhi alphabet, but inadequate awareness about specific writingshape of the aspirated letters, has created confusion (گھه ۽ جھه
instead of گهه ۽ جهه .(Therefore, mistakes are being made both in
composing and in handwriting. Irony is that all this is yet to be
noticed by the readers.
The middle )ـهه )shape of the alphabetic letter ‘ھ‘is used to
make an aspiration of the sound, and have two )ـهه ۽ ـھـه )styles. It is
quite easy to understand the aspiration of the sound on behalf of its
middle )ـهه )shape, because there are several words in Sindhi
language, which have same spellings, and they are differentiated by
the aspiration only, like as گهر means home and
َھر
ِگ means the kind
of a sweet. In this connection, the paper is about the styles (Initial,
Medial & Terminal) of ‘ھ ‘in the aspiration and simple sounds for
handwritings as well in digital compositions on the computing
devices by the Sindhi keyboards (MB Sindhi, Multiling O, SwiftKey,
etc.).
Shabir Kinyar. (2018) سنڌيلکت۽ ڪمپوزيشن ۾ ِوسرڳنجيواھپي جا عيب۽ انهن جا حل, Sindhi Boli (Research Journal), Volume-11, Issue-1.
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