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Ormuri

Ormuri is an Indo-European language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan, by about 1,050 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Ormuri · 32.7°N 69.3°E

Ormuri (اورموړی [oɾˈmuɽi]), also known as Baraki or Bargista, is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. It is primarily spoken by the Ormur people in the town of Kaniguram in South Waziristan. A small number of speakers are also found in Logar, Afghanistan. The language belongs to the Eastern-Iranian language group. The extremely small number of speakers makes Ormuri an endangered language that is considered to be in a "threatened" state.

Ormuri is notable for its unusual sound inventory, which includes a voiceless alveolar trill that does not exist in the surrounding Pashto. Ormuri also has voiceless and voiced alveolo-palatal fricatives (the voiceless being contrastive with the more common voiceless palato-alveolar fricative), which also exist in the Waziristani dialect of Pashto, but could have been adopted from Ormuri due to its close proximity.

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Words in Ormuri

MeaningWordRomanization
persons3r3i*
namenam*
eyecom*
eargoi*
nosenene*
toothg3s*
tonguez3ban*
handbizEr*
bloodsun*
boneh3dh*
skinc3rmun*
breastsina*
waterwok
firer3w3*
sunmier*
starstor3k*
stoneg3p*
treewon3*
leafpox3i*
nightSiyo*
dogsp3k*
fishmayi*
ones3*
twodio*
Iaz*
youtu*
wemax*
drinktot*
seediekh*
hearamarye*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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