Extinct Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan
| Wotapuri-Katarqalai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Extinct | 1950s (may have some active speakers) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wsv |
| Glottolog | wota1240 |
| ELP | Wotapuri-Katarqalai |
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."
Phonology※
Below is set out the "phonology of the Wotapuri-Katarqalai language."
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 ※ | 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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