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Omani Sindhis are citizens of Oman, who are Sindhi people, originally came from Sindh and around its regions.[citation needed]
History
editSindhi Bhatia traders established a colony in muscat between 1400 and 1860.[1][page needed][better source needed] In the seventeenth century when Portuguese lost Hormuz, Muscat became headquarters of their Arabian Gulf operation, during that period Oman's most important trading destination was Thatta city of Sindh, Thatta's main export items were clothes, silk, cotton yarn as well as opium, ghee, indigo and sugar.[2][page needed]
The Khowajas (Khoja) are another Sindhi people[failed verification] called as Al-Luwatiya who claim to have come from Hyderabad, Sindh. They speak Lawati (Khojki) language.[3][page needed]
The Luwatiya are merchants and deal in textiles, jewelry, grain and dates, besides this they trade in dried fish from Muscat, they were also involved in different skilled crafts like carpentry and boat building.[4][page needed]
Moreover, the Jadgal or Al Zidjali as called in Oman migrated from Makran region into Oman.[5][page needed] Jadgals speak the Jadgali dialect of Sindhi language.[6][page needed]
The Sindhi Memon are called as Maiman in Oman who speak Maimani language related to Luwati language.[7][need quotation to verify]
There are also 14,700 Sindhis from present day Sindh province of Pakistan.[8][failed verification][need quotation to verify]
References
edit- ^ George, Sam (2019-01-15). Diaspora Christianities: Global Scattering and Gathering of South Asian Christians. Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-5064-4706-3.
- ^ Jones, Jeremy (2013-03-10). Oman, Culture and Diplomacy. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-7463-3.
- ^ Wippel, Steffen (2013-08-16). Regionalizing Oman: Political, Economic and Social Dynamics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-007-6821-5.
- ^ Cavendish, Marshall (2006). World and Its Peoples. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2.
- ^ Nicolini, Beatrice (2004-01-01). Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar: Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean, 1799-1856. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-13780-6.
- ^ Jahani, Carina; Korn, Agnes; Titus, Paul Brian (2008). The Baloch and Others: Linguistic, Historical and Socio-political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan. Reichert Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89500-591-6.
- ^ Al Jahdhami, Said (2022). "Maimani Language and Lawati Language: Two Sides of the Same Coin?". Journal of Modern Languages. 32: 37–57. doi:10.22452/jml.vol32no1.3.
- ^ "Sindhi | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All). Retrieved 2024-06-19.