About SindhiKeyboardOnline.me

The Project

SindhiKeyboardOnline.me was created to address a straightforward problem: people who need to type Sindhi digitally often cannot do so easily. Standard computer keyboards ship without Sindhi layouts. Mobile phones sold outside Pakistan and India rarely include Sindhi as a built-in keyboard option. And installing custom keyboard software requires either administrative access or a level of technical comfort that not everyone has.

A browser-based tool sidesteps all of those barriers. Open the site, click letters, copy text. That's the entire workflow. The tool works on a school computer, a library terminal, a borrowed laptop, or a phone that has never had a Sindhi keyboard installed.

The project expanded from Sindhi alone to include Urdu, Pashto, Arabic, and Persian because these languages share the same Unicode script family and because speakers of these languages face similar barriers. A family of related tools on one site is more useful than five separate tools scattered across different domains.

Our Approach to Quality

Every character on every keyboard has been checked against the Unicode Standard to confirm it uses the correct code point for the intended language. Sindhi-specific letters use their Sindhi Unicode code points, not visually similar Arabic or Urdu substitutes. Persian characters use the Persian-specific code points (ک vs. ك, ی vs. ي). This matters for interoperability: text stored in a database, indexed by a search engine, or displayed in a different font will behave correctly only if the underlying code points are correct.

The keyboard layouts reflect standard practice for each language. The Sindhi layout covers the 52-letter standard alphabet used in Sindhi-medium education in Pakistan. The Urdu layout covers the complete set of Urdu letters including all characters that distinguish Urdu from its Arabic base. The Pashto layout includes the full set of Pashto-specific retroflex and unique letters.

Privacy and Data

This site does not collect what you type. The keyboards run entirely in your browser using standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No keystrokes are sent to any server. No analytics platform receives your text. No account is required. There are no cookies tied to your keyboard input.

The site may use standard web analytics (such as page view counts) that do not capture text content. Our Privacy Policy describes this in full.

Content Standards

The written content on this site — the articles on each keyboard page, the explanations of Unicode, the language history — is written to be accurate and useful. We do not publish invented statistics, unverifiable claims, or keyword-stuffed text that provides no real value to readers.

When we make specific claims about Unicode code points, language phonology, or script history, those claims are based on the Unicode Standard documentation, academic linguistics resources, or established reference sources. If you find an error, please contact us and we will correct it.

The Languages We Cover

Sindhi

Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by roughly 30 to 40 million people, primarily in Sindh province, Pakistan, and by diaspora communities worldwide. It has a rich literary tradition and has been written in multiple scripts over its history. The Perso-Arabic form is dominant in Pakistan.

Urdu

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and one of the scheduled languages of India. It is spoken as a first or second language by hundreds of millions of people and has a major presence in digital media, literature, and formal communication.

Pashto

Pashto is spoken by approximately 60–70 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is one of two official languages of Afghanistan and has significant regional importance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Arabic

Arabic is the language of the Quran and an official language of 22 countries. It is spoken by around 400 million people as a first language and is used for religious communication by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

Persian

Persian (Farsi/Dari) is spoken by approximately 110 million people across Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and by diaspora communities globally. It has one of the world's longest continuous literary traditions.

Contact and Feedback

If you find a character missing, a layout error, a bug in the copy function, or any other problem, please use the Contact page. Feedback from actual users is how tools like this improve.