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List of Sindhi tribes

Sindhis (Sindhi: سنڌي‎, Devanagari: सिन्धी, Romanised: Sin-dhee) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the Sindh province of Pakistan. Besides Sindh the historical homeland of Sindhis are regions like Kacchi Plain, the Lasbela and Makran regions in Balochistan,^[1] the Bahawalpur region^[2]ofPunjab,^[3] the Kutch regionofGujarat,^[4][5] and Jaisalmer and Barmer regions of Rajasthan, India.^[6] There are many Sindhi-Hindus who migrated to India after partition in 1947.^[7][8]

Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.^[9][10]

Sindhi people have many Sindhi communities which have many tribes and their clans called "Nukh, Para and Orakh" in Sindhi,^[11] some of major Sindhi communities are Sindhi Sammats, Sindhi Gujjars, Sindhi Rajputs, Sindhi Jats, Sindhi muslim reverts (Memon, Shaikh, Khuwaja), Sindhi Lohana (Bhaiband, Sahti, Amil), Sindhi Waniya, Arora, Sindhi fisherpeople (Mohana, Mallah, Med), Sindhi tribals/articans tribes, and few Arab, Mughal, Turkic and African Sheedi communities, list of Sindhi tribes is given below: ^{[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]}

• Farash

• Isran
• Issani/Essani
• Ibupotro/Ibupoto

• Qabulio

• Zangejo
• Zindpur
• Zonr/Zounr

• Essarani

• Idnani
• Issrani

• Ochani

• Ukrani
• Uttwani
• Uttamsinghani
• Uttamchandani

• Wassan
• Wadhwa
• Wadhani
• Watwani
• Wanwani
• Wadhwani
• Wasandani

• Athelo
• Aheeri
• Ahir/Aheer

• Chaki
• Charan
• Chanwli

• Hasulo
• Hanjhro

• Node
• Napar

• Oad

• Patoli
• Pakhali
• Pinjaro

• Qambrani

• Rabari

• Ursani

• Wadho

• Zargar

• Bukhari

• Farooqui

• Gilani/Jilani

• Hashmi

• Jafferi

• Lakiari (Lakyari)

• Naqvi

• Pasha
• Pirzado

• Qureshi

• Rizvi
• Rashdi

• Taqvi

• Uqaili

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