Abstract This paper focuses on the most prominent theta roles used in the Sindhi language. The study attempts to answer to the research question, ‘How are theta roles prominently used in the Sindhi language?’ The data come from the young native Sindhi speakers. Each verb phrase in the data is examined with the help of Carnie’s (2007) ‘Theta Roles and Thematic Relations’ in order to find the pro...

Sindhi language is primarily spoken in the Sindh province of Pakistan, and in some parts of India. Languages phonemic inventory include vowels, consonants and diphthongs. This paper presents acoustic analysis and properties of the glide consonants of Sindhi. Glides are considered having stable and predictable formant structure and associated acoustic properties like vowels and diphthongs. Under...

In this paper, a problem of sub-word segmentation of printed Sindhi, an Arabic style scripting language, into characters is addressed. Printed or handwritten Sindhi text is cursive in nature. In the cursive writing, mostly the subsequent characters in a word are joined with each other. In the proposed segmentation algorithm, first of all, Height Profile Vector (HPV) of thinned primary stroke of...

Morphological analysis is a fundamental task in natural-language processing, which is used in other NLP applications such as part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, information retrieval, machine translation, etc. In this paper, we present our work on the development of free/open-source finite-state morphological analyser for Sindhi. We have used Apertium’s lttoolbox as our finite-state tool...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of β thalassemia in Sindhi community of Wardha and evaluation of risk factors. To give genetic counseling to those diagnosed as carriers. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional (prevalence study). SETTING Sindhi community residing in and around Wardha. STUDY PERIOD 18 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 578 individuals belonging to Sindhi community resid...

Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language with more than 75 million native speakers1 is a resourcepoor language in terms of the availability of language technology tools and resources. In this thesis, we discuss the approaches taken to develop resources and tools for a resourcepoor language with special focus on Sindhi. The major contributions of this work include raw and annotated datasets, a POS Tagger,...

Statistical analysis of spelling error trends in a language plays important role in automatic spelling error detection and correction. Comprehensive statistical analysis of spelling error trends for Sindhi is still subject of research. This research study identifies and analyses the spelling error trends in Sindhi. The statistical analysis of error trends is based on a real time corpus collecte...

--The script of Sindhi Language is highly complex due to many complexities including abundance of homographic words. The interpretation of the text turns so tough due to the possibility of multitudinal meanings associated with a homographic word unless given specific pronunciation with the help of diacritics. Diacritics help the readers to comprehend the text easily. Due to the rapidly developi...

This study examined differences in residence, marriage age, and education among 6 language groups (Balochi-Brohi, Urdu, Siraiki, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Pushto) in Pakistan. Ethnic differences were reported for fertility preferences and family planning attitudes, knowledge, and practices. Data were obtained from the 1990-91 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey among 6582 eligible ever-married ...

The study was carried out on three female cattle groups namely; local (indigenous), Red Sindhi and cross breed Jersey in order to study the influence of age (10 months-2 years, i.e., group 1, 2-6 years, i.e., group 2 and 6-10 years, i.e., group 3) and breed on length and breadth of erythrocytes. Since the morphometric (length and breadth) data on these particular breeds and ages are inconsisten...