Thareli

Thareli (also called Tharechi) is a dialect of the Sindhi language, spoken in north eastern Thar Desert of Sindh.^[1]^[2]

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It is mainly spoken in the western part of Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India by many Sindhi Muslims like Sindhi Sipahi, Langha and Manganiar, on the eastern part of Jaisalmer the Thali dialect of marwari is spoken to the south is the Dhatki language.^[3]^[4]^[5] The dividing line between Sindhi Thareli and Marwari Thali runs about ten miles to the west of Jaisalmer city.^[6]

^ Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics; Volume 1. Berlin Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 2017. p. 433. ISBN 9783110393248. The five major dialects of Sindhi are Vicholi, Lari, Lasi, Thari, and Kachhi. Four dialects are spoken within the borders of Sindh itself. Siraiki, in Upper Sindh, is not to be confused with the Punjabi language of the same name. Vicholi, considered the standard dialect, is spoken in central Sindh, while Lari is the dialect in southern Sindh. Lasi is spoken on the western frontier of Sindh and in Balochistan. The Sindhi spoken in the Thar desert of the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan is called Thari. In Gujarat, Kachhi is spoken along the Rann of Kutch and in the Kathiawar peninsula.
^ Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1851). Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus with Notices of the Topography and History of the Province. Wm. H. Allen. p. 70.
^ "Linguistic Survey of India". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
^ One thousand languages : living, endangered, and lost. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-520-25560-9.
^ "Sindhi: Thareli language". globalrecordings.net. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
^ "Linguistic Survey of India". dsal.uchicago.edu. p. 109. Retrieved 2024-01-23. The dividing line between Thareli Sindhi and Thaļi runs about ten miles to the west of the town Jaisalmer.

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