Pashayi | |
Also Known As: | Pashai |
Nativename: | زبان پشهای Zabân Pašhây |
States: | Afghanistan |
Ethnicity: | Pashayi people |
Date: | 2000–2011 |
Ref: | e18 |
Script: | Persian alphabet |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Indo-Aryan |
Fam4: | Dardic |
Lingua: | 59-AAA-a |
Lc1: | aee |
Ld1: | Northeastern |
Lc2: | glh |
Ld2: | Northwestern |
Lc3: | psi |
Ld3: | Southeastern |
Lc4: | psh |
Ld4: | Southwestern |
Glotto: | pash1270 |
Glottorefname: | Pashayi |
Map: | Map of Languages (in Districts) in Afghanistan.jpg |
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.[1]
The Pashayi languages had no known written form prior to 2003.[2] There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity:
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.[3]
Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
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Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | |
voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
Rhotic | tap | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
Approximant | lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
central | pronounced as /ink/ ~ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ |
High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
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Mid | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | ||
Low | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ |