This article examines the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia. It focuses on questions concerning how members of this community reproduce identity through language shift. The first part of the article describes identity and language shift among diaspora Sindhis in post-partition India. It argues that language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspora Sindhis. The second part describes the history of diaspora Sindhis in Southeast Asia and analyses language shift. It contends that language shift enables diaspora Sindhis to suspend a connection between mother-tongue proficiency and identity. The article concludes by discussing how the diaspora Sindhi experience retunes the interval that conventionally connects language shift to cultural change.

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印度和东南亚散居信德人的语言转变和身份再生产

本文探讨了印度和东南亚散居信德人的语言转变与身份认同之间的关系。它侧重于有关该社区成员如何通过语言转变复制身份的问题。文章的第一部分描述了印度分治后散居海外的信德人的身份和语言转变。它认为语言转变促进了散居信德人的核心文化模式的再现。第二部分描述了东南亚散居信德人的历史并分析了语言的转变。它认为语言转变使散居国外的信德人能够暂停母语熟练程度和身份之间的联系。文章最后讨论了侨民信德人的经历如何重新调整传统上将语言转变与文化变革联系起来的区间。