The tables in the section 'Sindhi Letters' below list all the letters used in Sindhi Devanagari together with their IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) equivalents. These 43 consonants include the four implosive consonants unique to Sindhi, amongst the Indo-Aryan languages, and created by adding a diacritical bar underneath the standard consonant: ग॒, ज॒, ड॒/द॒ and ब॒.
Sindhi Devanagari has 10 vowels and 43 consonants. There is no distinction between capital and small-case letters.
Whereas in English the letter a may be used to represent various different sounds ( ambulance, acre, w ater, etc.), the Devanagari अ can only be used to represent the a sound as heard in the word America. Each letter in the Devanagari script has a single unique sound. क would be transliterated as ka rather than just k. Where a vowel is not specified, the consonant takes the अ vowel automatically, known as the schwa vowel, e.g. Each syllable is made up of either a vowel, or a consonant and a vowel. A continuous line groups syllables into a single word. The Devanagari script is most distinctively recognised by the horizontal line on top of each word. The Devanagari script also had to be modified to be able to represent the implosive consonants unique to the Sindhi language. Following the partition of India, and likely due to a number of factors such as the prevalence of Hindu Sindhis in post-partition India, their preference for the Devanagari script and the fact that the script was already in use for many other Indian languages such as Hindi or Marathi, the Government of India made the Devanagari script co-official (together with the Arabic script) for writing Sindhi.
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