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Darra-i-Nur Pashai (Southeast Pashai)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Indo-Aryan

Lat/lon: 34.702778, 70.601944

ISO code: psi

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarretroflexpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stopp, bt, dʈ, ɖk, gq
trillr
tapɽ
fricativefs, zʃʂx, ɣh
affricatetʃ, dʒ
lateral fricativeɬ
nasalmnɳŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mideo
near-openæ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeiː, yː
close-mid
near-openæː
open

Source: Morgenstierne, Georg. 1973. Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages, Vol. III, the Pashai Language, Part 1, Grammar (2nd ed.), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget; Bashir, Elena. 2007. Dardic. The Indo-Aryan languages, ed. by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain, 818–894. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge.

Comments: Vowel inventory is not phonologised. Tonal distinctions are noted, but not described.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)