| Ushoji | |
| States: | Pakistan |
| Region: | Swat, Kohistan |
| Speakers: | 2,000 |
| Date: | 1992 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
| Fam3: | Indo-Aryan |
| Fam4: | Eastern Dardic |
| Fam5: | Shinaic |
| Fam6: | Kohistani–Ushoji Shina?[1] |
| Iso3: | ush |
| Glotto: | usho1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Ushojo |
| Nativename: | {{nq|اُݜوجو |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[ʊˈʂoːd͡ʒoː]/ |
Ushoji or Ushojo ({{nq|اُݜوجو, ; pronounced as /ush/) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Ushoji may be severely endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.[2]
| English gloss | Ushoji[3] | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | ɪk | |
| 2 | two | du | |
| 3 | three | t͡ʃe | |
| 4 | four | t͡ʃar | |
| 5 | five | pʰʊʃ | |
| 6 | six | ʃɑ | |
| 7 | seven | sɑʈ | |
| 8 | eight | ɑʈ | |
| 9 | nine | nəo | |
| 10 | ten | de | |
| 20 | twenty | bɪey | |
| 100 | hundred | sao | |
| 1000 | thousand | zʌr |
Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.[4]
| Letter | Romanization | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| {{nq|آ | ā | pronounced as //aː// | |
| {{nq|أ | a | pronounced as //a// | |
| {{nq|ا | ʿ | pronounced as //ʔ// | |
| {{nq|ب | b | pronounced as //b// | |
| {{nq|پ | p | pronounced as //p// | |
| {{nq|ت | t | pronounced as //t// | |
| {{nq|ٹ | ṭ | pronounced as //ʈ// | |
| {{nq|ث | (s) | pronounced as //s// | |
| {{nq|ج | ǰ | pronounced as //d͡ʒ// | |
| {{nq|چ | č | pronounced as //t͡ʃ// | |
| {{nq|ڇ | ċ | pronounced as //ʈ͡ʂ// | |
| {{nq|څ | c | pronounced as //t͡s// | |
| {{nq|ح | (h) | pronounced as //h// | |
| {{nq|خ | ǩ | pronounced as //x// | |
| {{nq|د | d | pronounced as //d// | |
| {{nq|ڈ | ḍ | pronounced as //ɖ// | |
| {{nq|ذ | (z) | pronounced as //z// | |
| {{nq|ر | r | pronounced as //r// | |
| {{nq|ڑ | ṛ | pronounced as //ɽ// | |
| {{nq|ز | z | pronounced as //z// | |
| {{nq|ڙ | ż | pronounced as //ʐ// | |
| {{nq|ژ | ž | pronounced as //ʒ// | |
| {{nq|س | s | pronounced as //s// | |
| {{nq|ش | š | pronounced as //ʃ// | |
| {{nq|ݜ | ṣ | pronounced as //ʂ// | |
| {{nq|ص | (s) | pronounced as //s// | |
| {{nq|ض | (d) | pronounced as //d// | |
| {{nq|ط | (t) | pronounced as //t// | |
| {{nq|ظ | (z) | pronounced as //z// | |
| {{nq|ع | ʿ | pronounced as //ʔ// | |
| {{nq|غ | ǧ | pronounced as //ɣ// | |
| {{nq|ف | f | pronounced as //f// | |
| {{nq|ق | (k) | pronounced as //k// | |
| {{nq|ک | k | pronounced as //k// | |
| {{nq|گ | g | pronounced as //ɡ// | |
| {{nq|ل | l | pronounced as //l// | |
| {{nq|م | m | pronounced as //m// | |
| {{nq|ن | n | pronounced as //n// | |
| {{nq|و | w | pronounced as //ʊ~w// | |
| {{nq|ہ | h, x | pronounced as //h/ɦ// | |
| {{nq|ھ | _h | pronounced as //ʰ/ʱ// | |
| {{nq|ء | ʿ | pronounced as //ʔ// | |
| {{nq|ی | y | pronounced as //j// | |
| {{nq|ے | e | pronounced as //e// |