Kutchi

Kutchi (કચ્છી / ڪڇّي)

Kutchi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 866,000
speakers mainly in India in the Kutch region of Gujarat,
and also in Sindh in Pakistan. There are also some Kutchi
speakers in Trinidad and Tobago.

Kutchi is also known as Cutchi, Kutchhi or Kachchhi
and is related to Sindhi and Gujarati. It also contains
quite a lot of vocabulary from Sindhi, Gujarati and
Rajasthani.

In Pakistan Kutchi is written with the Sindhi version
of the Perso-Arabic script, and in India the Gujarati is
used. In 2009 a new script for Kutchi was developed by
Dr Rajul Shah more details.

Gujarātī script for Kutchi

Vowels and vowel diacritics

Gujarati vowels and vowel diacritics with pa

Consonants

Gujarati consonants

Sindhi alphabet for Kutchi

Sindhi alphabet for Kutchi

Information about Kutchi alphabets and pronunciation complied by Wolfram Siegel

Links

Information about Kutchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutchi_language
http://www.kutchilanguageonline.co.cc
http://www.kutchimaadu.com/general/kutchi-language/

Online Kutchi lessons
http://www.panjokutch.com/Learn%20Kutchi/main%20page.htm

Recordings in Kutchi
http://globalrecordings.net/en/language/3922

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