lingvo.wikisort.org - Language

Wasi-wari (Vasi-vari, Wasi-weri) is the language of the Wasi people, spoken in a few villages in the Pârun Valley (Prasun Valley) in Afghanistan. It also goes by the name Prasun or Paruni.

Wasi-wari
Prasun, Paruni
Vâsi-vari
Native to	Afghanistan
Region	Pârun Valley
Native speakers	8,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Northern Wasi-wari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	prn
Glottolog	pras1239
ELP	Prasuni
Linguasphere	58-ACB-b

Vasi-vari belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch. Vasi-vari is the most isolated of the Nuristani languages.

As far as is known, its speakers are 100% Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% and 25% for people who have it as a second language.

Demographics

Wasi-wari is a language spoken by the Vâs’i people who are located in the Pârun Valley, known as Vâs’i gul, at the beginning of the Pech River Basin in the Nurestân Province of Northeastern Afghanistan. The Vâs’i refer to the language as Vâs’i-vari or Vâs’i-vare, but it is also known as Prasuni, Paruni, Parun, Vasi-vari, Prasun, Veron, Verou, Veruni, Wasi-veri, Wasi-weri, Wasin-veri, Vasi Vari, and Pārūnī. The population of Vâs’i gul is between 3000-6000, and there are approximately 8000 native speakers, which makes it a vulnerable language.

Dialects

Wasi-wari is broken up into three dialects that are spoken in six villages. The upper dialect, Ṣup'u-vari, is spoken in the northernmost village, Ṣup'u. The central dialect, üšʹüt-üćʹü-zumʹu-vari, is spoken in the middle four villages, S’eć, Üć’ü, Üšʹüt, and Zum’u. The Lower dialect, Uṣ'üt-var’e, is spoken in Uṣ'üt, the lowest village.[2]

Classification

Wasi-wari is part of the Nuristani branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which has both Iranian and Indo-Aryan influences.[3] Nuristani languages were formerly considered to be Dardic languages,[4] however, they are dissimilar enough from the other Dardic languages to constitute their own branch of the Indo-Iranian language tree. There was also previously confusion on whether Wasi-wari and Prasun were the same or separate languages, but it was determined that both names referred to the same language.[5] Although it is substantially different from the other Nuristâni languages, Wasi-wari forms the northern cluster of Nuristâni languages with Kâmk’ata-Mumkst’a-vari, so they share some similarities.[6]

Phonology

Vowels

Wasi-wari has eight vowels, â, u, o, i, e, ü, ö, and the unmarked vowel, a, which is pronounced as a high central vowel, [ɨ]. Long vowels are denoted with :, such as [i:].

Pronouns

	nominative	accusative	genitive
1sg.	unźū	andeš	am
1pl.	āsẽm		ās
2sg.	ūyu	utyōiš	ĩ
2pl.	miū		āsen

Numerals

Number	Vâs’i-vari Word
1	ipin or attege
2	lūe
3	chhī
4	chipū
5	uch
6	ushū
7	sete
8	aste
9	nūh
10	leze
11	zizh
12	wizū
13	chhīza
14	chipults
15	vishilhts
16	ushulhts
17	setilts
18	astilts
19	nalts
20	zū
30	lezaij
40	jibeze
50	lejjibets
60	chichegzū
70	chichegzālets
80	chipegzū
90	chipegzualets
100	ochegzū

[7]

References

External links

• Prasuni at the Endangered Languages Project

На других языках

---

- [en] Wasi-wari

---

[es] Idioma prasun

Wasi-wari (Vasi-vari, Wasi-weri) es el idioma del pueblo Wasi, hablado en algunas aldeas en el Valle de Pârun (Valle de Prasun) en Afganistán. También se conoce con el nombre de 'Prasun' o Paruni.

---

[fr] Prasun

Le prasun est une langue indo-iranienne du groupe des langues nouristanies, parlée en Afghanistan, dans le Nouristan, dans la province de Kounar, dans la vallée du Prasun, un affluent du Pech[2].

---

[it] Lingua prasun

La lingua Prasun (Parun) o Wasi-wari (Vasi-vari, Wasi-weri) è la lingua del popolo Wasi (o Vâs'i), parlata in alcuni villaggi della valle di Parun (o Prasun Valley) nella Provincia di Nurestan in Afghanistan.

---

[ru] Прасун

Прасу́н (васи-вари, прасуни) — один из языков Афганистана, наиболее изолированный из нуристанских языков. На прасун говорит народность васи, проживающая в нескольких деревнях в долине реки Прасун.

---

---