Wotapuri-Katarqalai language
Extinct Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan
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Wotapuri-Katarqalai is an Indo-Aryan language documented to have been spoken in Afghanistan. It is unknown if the language still has active speakers. The most recent documentation of its use was published in 1983, when it was proposed that the language was in use in Katar-qala and unlikely to be extinct in Wotapur.[2]
| Wotapuri-Katarqalai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Extinct | 1950s (may have some active speakers)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wsv |
| Glottolog | wota1240 |
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 (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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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