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The thesis then presents and analyses oral interview data on community opinion on the recent proposal to use the Roman script to read and write Sindhī. The diachronic analysis draws on several linguistic, literary and other academic works on the Sindhī language and brings to the fore hitherto neglected data on historical script use for the language.

Particular attention is paid to Perso-Arabic and Devanāgarī, which emerged as the two most widely used scripts for the language in the twentieth century. In doing so, it investigates the domains in which certain scripts were used, and identifies definite patterns in their distribution. The thesis first analyses the rich but understudied script history of the Sindhī language from the tenth century to modern times. It investigates the use of scripts for the Sindhī language of South Asia, both from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. This thesis is on the sociolinguistics of writing. *** Keywords: heritage language, language shift, Sindhi, thematic analysis All informants rated their need for, exposure to and emotional attachment to the Sindhi language as low, resulting in correspondingly poor competence in Sindhi.

*** The views provided by these informants suggested that ability in a language was largely a function of three parameters – necessity, exposure and affinity. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with each of the informants, and the resulting data analysed using qualitative methods, namely thematic analysis. The thirteen informants selected by snowball sampling were all Sindhi women and men who admitted to having poor or extremely limited ability in Sindhi, were below 35 years of age, and had spent a majority of their life (>50%) in Pune. *** Hence, the present study aimed to find out from young Sindhis in Pune, India, who admitted to having undergone heritage language shift, what they thought were the reasons behind this shift. However, most of the literature regarding such shift is based on empirical data, and has stopped short of actively exploring the mindset of such Sindhis who have undergone heritage language shift. Previous studies that have researched the linguistic habits of the Sindhi community in India (Khubchandani 1963, Daswani & Parchani 1978 Daswani 1985, Parchani 1998) largely suggest that there is progressive inter-generational heritage language shift among urban Sindhis, many of whom have adopted either English or Hindi as the home language. The Sindhi community in India numbers about 2.5 million and has settled in various parts of the country-mostly urban areas such as Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and Ahmedabad.

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