English: This map shows the percentage of people in each district of Pakistan who spoke Sindhi as their mother tongue at the time of the 1998 census.

The templates used to make this map can be found here.

The source for the data used in the creation of this file can be found here (must be accessed through Google Earth or another application which opens .SHP files). All the data is adjusted for 2020 district borders.

The image was created with Gimp and a calculator.

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Sindhi is a Northwestern Indo-Aryan language which has about 33 million native speakers worldwide, 90% of whom live in Pakistan's Sindh province. It is the third-most-widely spoken mother tongue in Pakistan, after Punjabi and Pashto. Approximately 30.26 million people speak Sindhi natively in Pakistan.

Sindhi was spoken by 14.10% of Pakistanis as a first language in 1998 (18.66 million people). 60% of the population of Sindh, 5.6% of the population of Balochistan, 0.56% of the population of Islamabad, 0.13% of the population of Punjab, and 0.035% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spoke Sindhi as a first language in 1998.

By 2017, the share of Pakistanis who spoke Sindhi as their first language had risen to 14.57% (30.26 million people). 62% of the population of Sindh, 4.6% of the population of Balochistan, 0.77% of the population of Islamabad, 0.15% of the population of Punjab, and 0.091% of the population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spoke Sindhi as a first language in 2017.

TL;DR: There isn't any publicly available data on languages and their district-wise distributions for 2017 (as of the creation of this map in December 2020), so this map uses 1998 data, which means it may not stack up to the proper values they're at today. Since 1998, the proportion of Sindhi speakers has slightly risen nationwide from 14.10% to 14.57%, slightly risen in Sindh from 60% to 62%, fallen significantly in Balochistan from 5.6% to 4.6%, significantly risen in Islamabad from 0.56% to 0.77%, slightly risen in Punjab from 0.13% to 0.15%, and has tripled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 0.035% to 0.091%. Keep all of this in mind as you read this map.

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Jafarabad and Sohbatpur Districts in Balochistan (bordering Sindh) are marked "No Data" because it is impossible to determine their categories. The area which covers these two districts today was only one district in 1998, and the old tehsil borders of that district do not align with the current district borders. In 1998, though, 23.62% of the population of the two districts spoke Sindh