Closely Related Languages
Kachhi is a dialect of Sindhi, spoken in neighboring Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India, but has borrowed some vocabulary from Gujarati, because the Kutch District is geographically between Sindh and Gujarat.
It is likely that such linguistic similarities with Gujarati and Rajasthani are the result of migrations over the centuries across the desert stretching from present-day Sindh to Saurashtra and Kutchh to the east, and Rajasthan.
Most Kachhis living in India are bilingual or trilingual, due to exposure to closely related neighbouring languages such as Gujarati. Many Pakistanis are also bilingual or trilingual; many residents of Karachi speak Kutchi. Kutchi can not be written in Urdu script but it can be written in Sindhi or Gujarati scripts.
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