Technically the 17th letter of AlifBe or the Sindhi Alphabet is ح i.e ‘H’ but this particular alphabet is not used for words of Sindhi origin (there is another ‘H’in the AlifBe and it will be covered in future post when we will arrive on it) and hence there is no corresponding dish in Sindhi cuisine. So we will jump to next letter which, again, is used to write words of non Sindhi origin but thankfully we have a popular Sindhi dish starting with that letter. Any guesses?? Well, the 17th letter is خ which is ख़ in Devanagari (Kindly…
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Third letter of #AlifBe i.e Sindhi alphabet is very interesting. The consonantal sound of this alphabet is used in only a handful-of languages spoken across the world like: Ega or the West African language spoken in South central Ivory coast or Vietnamese, Zulu etc if I am not wrong. The alphabet is ٻ and is written as B^ in Roman Sindhi. In English language the sounds of consonants are articulated when the air from lungs move outwards and hence such sounds are known as pulmonic sounds (Try saying A, B, C, D….and you will be able to relate). But in…


