Wotapuri-Katarqalai language
Wotapuri-Katarqalai | |
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Native to | Afghanistan |
Extinct | 1 speaker found in 1955[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wsv |
Glottolog | wota1240 |
ELP | Wotapuri-Katarqalai |
Wotapuri-Katarqalai is an extinct Dardic language of the Kohistani group spoken in Afghanistan.
Phonology[]
Below is set out the phonology of the Wotapuri-Katarqalai language.[2]
Vowels[]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | ə | o oː |
Open | a aː |
Consonants[]
Labial | Coronal | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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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)
- ^ Edelman, D. I. (1983). The Dardic and Nuristani Languages. Moscow: (Institut vostokovedenii︠a︡ (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR). p. 139.
Categories:
- Dardic languages
- Indo-Aryan language stubs