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Pashayi or Pashai (زبان پشهای) 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 written form prior to 2003.[3] There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity:[1]
- Northeastern: Aret, Chalas (Chilas), Kandak, Korangal, Kurdar dialects
- Northwestern: Alasai, Bolaghain, Gulbahar, Kohnadeh, Laurowan, Najil, Nangarach, Pachagan, Pandau, Parazhghan, Pashagar, Sanjan, Shamakot, Shutul, Uzbin, Wadau dialects
- Southeastern: Damench, Laghmani, Sum, Upper and Lower Darai Nur, Wegali dialects
- Southwestern: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau dialects
| Pashayi | |
|---|---|
| Pashai | |
| زبان پشهای Zabân Pašhây | |
 Pashayi in Nastaliq | |
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Pashayi people |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2000–2011)[1] |
Language family | Indo-European
|
Writing system | Persian alphabet |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:aee – Northeasternglh – Northwesternpsi – Southeasternpsh – Southwestern |
| Glottolog | pash1270 |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAA-a |
 Linguistic map of Afghanistan; Pashayi is spoken in the purple area in the east. | |
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.[4]
Phonology
Consonants
| 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 | |||||
- [h] is only phonemic in the Amla dialect.
- Sounds [f] and [q] can also occur, but only in loanwords and among Dari speakers.
- [ʂ] is more commonly heard among older speakers, but is lost among younger speakers, and is heard as a postalveolar [ʃ].
- [ʐ] is more commonly heard among older speakers, but is lost among younger speakers, and is heard as a postalveolar [ʒ].
- /ʋ/ is heard before front vowels /i e/. When occurring before or after central or back vowels /a u o/, it is heard as [w].
- According to Masica (1991) some dialects have a /θ/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
- Only mid or low vowels have lengthened equivalents.
- /e/ can be heard as [ɛ] and /a/ can be heard as [ə] or [æ], in certain environments.[4]
References
- Northeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Northwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 440.
- Yun, Ju-Hong (2003). Pashai Language Development Project: Promoting Pashai language, literacy and community development (PDF). Conference on language development, language revitalization and multilingual education in minority communities in Asia. 6–8 November 2003. Bangkok, Thailand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- Lehr, Rachel (2014). A Descriptive Grammar of Pashai: The Language and Speech Community of Darrai Nur. University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, Department of Linguistics. ISBN 978-1-321-22417-7.
Languages of Afghanistan | ||
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| Official languages | ||
| Regional languages | ||
| Minority languages | ||
| Sign languages | ||
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[de] Pashai
Pashai ist eine in Afghanistan gesprochene Sprache. Sie gehört zur Gruppe der dardischen Sprachen innerhalb des indoarischen Zweigs der indoiranischen Untergruppe der indogermanischen Sprachfamilie.- [en] Pashayi languages
[ru] Пашаи
Пашаи — индоевропейский язык, относящийся к дардской группе[1].Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.
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