Ernest Trumpp
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1828 – 1885
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Who was Ernest Trumpp?
Ernest Trumpp was a German philologist and missionary to Sindh Province, Punjab Province, and Peshawar—all part of then-British India before the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
He authored the first Sindhi grammar entitled Sindhi Alphabet and Grammar. He also published Grammar of Pashto, or language of the Afghans, compared with the Iranian and North Indian idioms, and translated most of the Guru Granth Sahib, sacred scriptures of the Sikhs, into English language.
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