Pashayi | |
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Pashai | |
زبان پشهای Zabân Pašhây | |
Native to | Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Pashayi people |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2000–2011) [1] |
Persian alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
aee – Northeastern
glh – Northwestern
psi – Southeastern
psh – Southwestern |
Glottolog |
pash1270 |
Linguasphere | 59-AAA-a |
Linguistic map of
Afghanistan; Pashayi is spoken in the purple area in the east. |
Pashayi or Pashai (پشه اې ژبه) is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Kabul ( Surobi District) provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. [2]
The Pashayi languages had no known written form prior to 2003. [3] There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity: [1]
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014. [4]
Labial |
Dental/ Alveolar |
Palato- alveolar |
Retroflex | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k | ||
voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ( ʂ) | x | ( h) | |
voiced | z | ʒ | ( ʐ) | ɣ | |||
lateral | ɬ | ||||||
Rhotic | tap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||
trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | lateral | l | |||||
central | ʋ ~ w | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | u | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Low | a aː |
Pashayi | |
---|---|
Pashai | |
زبان پشهای Zabân Pašhây | |
Native to | Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Pashayi people |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2000–2011) [1] |
Persian alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
aee – Northeastern
glh – Northwestern
psi – Southeastern
psh – Southwestern |
Glottolog |
pash1270 |
Linguasphere | 59-AAA-a |
Linguistic map of
Afghanistan; Pashayi is spoken in the purple area in the east. |
Pashayi or Pashai (پشه اې ژبه) is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Kabul ( Surobi District) provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. [2]
The Pashayi languages had no known written form prior to 2003. [3] There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity: [1]
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014. [4]
Labial |
Dental/ Alveolar |
Palato- alveolar |
Retroflex | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k | ||
voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ( ʂ) | x | ( h) | |
voiced | z | ʒ | ( ʐ) | ɣ | |||
lateral | ɬ | ||||||
Rhotic | tap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||
trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | lateral | l | |||||
central | ʋ ~ w | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | u | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Low | a aː |