Because a language is not dead when its last speaker dies. It is dead when its last font is corrupted.
And Sindhi, against all odds, is still installing. sindhi all fonts
To gather all Sindhi fonts is to hold a mirror to the soul of a people scattered by Partition, nourished by Sufi poetry, and now fighting for pixels on a screen. Long before TrueType or OpenType, Sindhi lived in the hand. The Arabic-Naskh script, augmented with thirteen additional diacritical marks (the dots that give Sindhi its phonetic precisionβ Ϊ , Ϊ , Ϊ , Ϊ , etc.), was not just writing. It was devotion. The Shah Jo Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai was passed down in careful naskh , where the thickness of a dal or the curl of a reh carried the sur (melody) of his verses. Because a language is not dead when its last speaker dies
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