Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Indus Kohistani
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Indus Kohistani or simply Kohistani (کوستَیں ژیب, Kōstaiñ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the former Kohistan District of Pakistan.[3] The language was referred to as Maiyã (Mayon) or Shuthun by early researchers, but subsequent observations have not verified that these names are known locally.[4]
Remove ads
Remove ads
Phonology
Summarize
Perspective
The phonology of Indus Kohistani varies between its major dialects as shown below.[5]
Vowels
In the Kanyawali dialect, the back vowels /u/ and /o/ are described as variants of each other, as are the front vowels /i/ and /e/.
Consonants

Kohistani is spoken in multiple districts of KPK in north as of the 2017 Pakistan Census
The consonant inventory of Indus Kohistani is shown in the chart below. (Consonants particular to the Kanyawali Dialect of Tangir and those found only in the Kohistan Dialects are color-coded respectively.)
The phonemes /x/, /ɣ/, and /q/ are mainly found in loan words. The status of /q/ in the Kanyawali Dialect is unclear. The sounds /f, v/ can also be bilabial [ɸ, β].[6]
Remove ads
See also
References
Bibliography
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads