Wotapuri-Katarqalai language
| Wotapuri-Katarqalai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Region | Watapur District |
| Era | last attested 1983[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wsv |
| Glottolog | wota1240 |
| ELP | Wotapuri-Katarqalai |
 Wotapuri-Katarqalai is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Wotapuri-Katarqalai is an Indo-Aryan language documented to have been spoken in Afghanistan. It is unknown if the language still has active speakers, or is extinct. 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.[1] In September 2023, there were just 3 senior male speakers (1 in Katar-qala and 2 in Quro) living in the valley reported to Sviatoslav Kaverin who was conducting field research there.
Phonology
[edit]Below is set out the phonology of the Wotapuri-Katarqalai language.[2]
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | ə | o oː |
| Open | a aː |
Consonants
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ a b Ėdelʹman, Dzhoĭ 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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