Ormuri language
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| Ormuri | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Pakistan |
| Native speakers | 1,000 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | oru |
Ormuri is a member of the Southeastern branch of the Eastern Iranian languages,[1] but attempts to classify Ormuri in the Northwestern Iranian languages have also been made.[2] It is spoken in the city of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan by the Burki people. It may also be spoken by a few people in Baraki Barak in Logar, Afghanistan. It is notable for its unusual sound inventory, which includes a voiceless alveolar trill (contrastive with the more common voiced variety) i.e. the ř of Czech, and voiceless and voiced alveolo-palatal fricatives (the voiceless being contrastive with the more common voiceless palato-alveolar fricative), i.e. the ښ and ږ of Waziri.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Nicholas Sims-Williams, Eastern Iranian languages, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 2010
- ^ Ethnologue report for Iranian
- Daniel G. Hallberg (1992) Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 4). National Institute of Pakistani Studies, 176 pp. ISBN 9698023143.
[edit] External links
- Don Hallberg, Sociolinguistic of North Pakistan, Vol 4: Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri
- Dying Languages: Special Focus on Ormuri
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