Ushoji language
Appearance
Ushoji | |
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اُݜوجو | |
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Pronunciation | [ʊˈʂoːd͡ʒoː] |
Native to | Pakistan |
Region | Swat, Kohistan |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1992)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ush |
Glottolog | usho1238 |
ELP | Ushojo |
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
[edit]Ushoji may be severely endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.[3]
Numerals
[edit]English gloss | Ushoji[4] | |
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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
[edit]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 |
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آ | ā | /aː/ |
أ | a | /a/ |
ا | ʿ | /ʔ/ |
ب | b | /b/ |
پ | p | /p/ |
ت | t | /t/ |
ٹ | ṭ | /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 | ḍ | /ɖ/ |
ذ | (z) | /z/ |
ر | r | /r/ |
ڑ | ṛ | /ɽ/ |
ز | z | /z/ |
ڙ | ż | /ʐ/ |
ژ | ž | /ʒ/ |
س | s | /s/ |
ش | š | /ʃ/ |
ݜ | ṣ | /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/ʱ/ |
ء | ʿ | /ʔ/ |
ی | y | /j/ |
ے | e | /e/ |
References
[edit]- ^ Ushoji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Did you know Ushojo is threatened?".
- ^ "Language name and location: Ushojo, Pakistan". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "اُڜوجو (Ushojo)" (PDF) (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-01-19.