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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 toAfghanistan
RegionPârun Valley
Native speakers
8,000 (2011)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Nuristani
      • Northern
        • Wasi-wari
Language codes
ISO 639-3prn
Glottologpras1239
ELPPrasuni
Linguasphere58-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


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

[7]


References


  1. Wasi-wari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Strand, R. F. (2000). The Vâsi. Retrieved from: http://nuristan.info/Nuristani/Vasi/vasi.html
  3. Strand, R. F. (2010). Nurestâni languages. In Encyclopedia Iranica. Retrieved from: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nurestani-languages
  4. Grierson, G. A. (1919). Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmīrī). Linguistic Survey of India, 8 (2), 59. Retrieved from: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=8-2&pages=584#page/74/mode/1up
  5. Strand, R. F. (1973). Notes on the Nūristāni and Dardic languages. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 93, 297-305. Retrieved from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/599462
  6. Strand, R. F. (2010). Nurestâni languages. In Encyclopedia Iranica. Retrieved from: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nurestani-languages
  7. Grierson,G. A. (1919). Specimens of the Dardic or Piśācha languages (including Kāshmīrī). Linguistic Survey of India, 8 (2), 67. Retrieved from: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=8-2&pages=584#page/82/mode/1up




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.



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