Masidwola dialect explained

Masidwola
Also Known As:	Waziri, Dawari, Maseedwola
States:	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Region:	Waziristan
Familycolor:	Indo-European
Fam2:	Indo-Iranian
Fam3:	Iranian
Fam4:	Eastern
Fam5:	Pashto
Fam6:	Waziristani
Iso3:	none
Isoexception:	dialect

Masidwola (Pushto; Pashto: ماسیدوله, meaning "of the Mehsuds"), Mehsudi, or Maseedwola is a dialect of Waziristani.

Phonology

Rozi Khan Burki claims that in Waziristani is that the phonemes [ʃ] and [ʂ], along with their voiced counterparts, [ʒ] and [ʐ], have merged into the phonemes [ɕ] and [ʑ], both of which also exist in the nearby Ormuri or Warmuri language of Burkis of Kaniguram, South Waziristan.^[1] But Pashto linguists such as Josef Elfenbein, Anna Boyle or Yousaf Khan Jazab have not noted this in Waziri Phonology.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• Waneci

Notes

• Linguist List
• Lorimer, John Gordon (1902). Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto.

Notes and References

1. December 2001. Dying Languages: Special Focus on Ormuri. https://archive.today/20120903184433/http://www.khyber.org/publications/016-020/ormuri.shtml. usurped. September 3, 2012. Pakistan Journal of Public Administration. 6. No. 2.
2. Book: David, Anne Boyle. Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects. 2014. De Gruyter Mouton. 978-1-61451-303-2. 37–40. en.
3. Book: Khan Jazab, Yousaf. An Ethno-linguisitic Study of the Karlani Varieities of Pashto. Pashto Academy, University of Peshawar. 2017. 69–70.