Wotapuri-Katarqalai language
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| Wotapuri-Katarqalai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Extinct | 1 speaker found in 1955[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wsv |
| Glottolog | wota1240 |
Wotapuri-Katarqalai is an extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken in Afghanistan. It is possibly still spoken in Katar-qala and Wotapur.[2]
Phonology
Below is set out the phonology of the Wotapuri-Katarqalai language.[3]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | ə | o oː |
| Open | a aː |
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | |||||
| Stop | Plain | p | t | ʈ | k | q | ||
| Aspirated | pʰ [f] | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | ||||
| Voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | Plain | ts | tʂ | tʃ | ||||
| Aspirated | tsʰ | tʂʰ | tʃʰ | |||||
| Voiced | (dz) | dʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | Plain | s | ʂ | ʃ | x | h | ||
| Voiced | z | |||||||
| Lateral | Plain | l | ||||||
| Fricative | ɬ ~ l̥ | |||||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | ||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||||
References
- ^ Wotapuri-Katarqalai at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Ėdelʹman, Dzohoĭ Iosifovna (1983). The Dardic and Nuristani Languages. "Nauka" Publishing House, Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1983.
- ^ Edelman, D. I. (1983). The Dardic and Nuristani Languages. Moscow: (Institut vostokovedenii︠a︡ (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR). p. 139.
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