Ushoji language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan
Ushoji
Native toPakistan
RegionSwat, Kohistan
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Indo-Aryan
      • Eastern Dardic
        • Shinaic
          • Kohistani–Ushoji Shina?[2]
            • Ushoji
Language codes
ISO 639-3ush
Glottologusho1238
ELPUshojo

Ushoji or Ushojo (اُݜوجو, Uṣōǰō; pronounced [ʊˈʂoːd͡ʒoː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Status

Ushoji may be incredibly endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.[3]

Numerals

English gloss Ushoji[4]
1 one ɪk (اِیۡک)
2 two du (دُو)
3 three t͡ʃe (ۡچِے)
4 four t͡ʃar (چَر)
5 five pʰʊʃ (پھُش)
6 six ʃɑ (شَا)
7 seven sɑʈ (سَاٹ)
8 eight ɑʈ (آٹ)
9 nine nəo (نِیُو)
10 ten de (ۡدِے)
20 twenty bɪey (ۡبِئے)
100 hundred sao (سَئو)
1000 thousand zʌr (زَرۡ)

Orthography

Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.[5]

Letter Romanization IPA
آ ā /aː/
أ a /a/
ا ʿ /ʔ/
ب b /b/
پ p /p/
ت t /t/
ٹ /ʈ/
ث (s) /s/
ج ǰ /d͡ʒ/
چ č /t͡ʃ/
ڇ ċ /ʈ͡ʂ/
څ c /t͡s/
ح (h) /h/
خ ǩ /x/
د d /d/
ڈ /ɖ/
ذ (z) /z/
ر r /r/
ڑ /ɽ/
ز z /z/
ڙ ż /ʐ/
ژ ž /ʒ/
س s /s/
ش š /ʃ/
ݜ /ʂ/
ص (s) /s/
ض (d) /d/
ط (t) /t/
ظ (z) /z/
ع ʿ /ʔ/
غ ǧ /ɣ/
ف f /f/
ق (k) /k/
ک k /k/
گ g /ɡ/
ل l /l/
م m /m/
ن n /n/
و w /ʊ~w/
ہ h, x /h/ɦ/
ھ _h /ʰ/
ء ʿ /ʔ/
ی y /j/
ے e /e/

References

  1. ^ Ushoji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Kohistanic Shina". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  3. ^ "Did you know Ushojo is threatened?".
  4. ^ "Language name and location: Ushojo, Pakistan". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  5. ^ "اُڜوجو (Ushojo)" (PDF) (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-01-19.

Decker 1992 Ushojo

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