Ushoji
Native toPakistan
RegionSwat, Kohistan
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ush
Glottologusho1238
ELPUshojo

Ushoji (natively known as Ushojo) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Status

Ushoji may be incredibly endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.[3]

Numerals

English glossUshoji[4]
1oneɪk (اِیۡک)
2twodu (دُو)
3threet͡ʃe (ۡچِے)
4fourt͡ʃar (چَر)
5fivepʰʊʃ (پھُش)
6sixʃɑ (شَا)
7sevensɑʈ (سَاٹ)
8eightɑʈ (آٹ)
9ninenəo (نِیُو)
10tende (ۡدِے)
20twentybɪey (ۡبِئے)
100hundredsao (سَئو)
1000thousandzʌr (زَرۡ)

Orthography

Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.[5]

LetterRomanizationIPA
آā/aː/
أa/a/
اʿ/ʔ/
بb/b/
پp/p/
تt/t/
ٹ/ʈ/
ث(s)/s/
جǰ/d͡ʒ/
چč/t͡ʃ/
ڇċ/ʈ͡ʂ/
څc/t͡s/
ح(h)/h/
خǩ/x/
دd/d/
ڈ/ɖ/
ذ(z)/z/
رr/r/
ڑ/ɽ/
زz/z/
ڙż/ʐ/
ژž/ʒ/
سs/s/
شš/ʃ/
ݜ/ʂ/
ص(s)/s/
ض(d)/d/
ط(t)/t/
ظ(z)/z/
عʿ/ʔ/
غǧ/ɣ/
فf/f/
ق(k)/k/
کk/k/
گg/ɡ/
لl/l/
مm/m/
نn/n/
وw/ʊ~w/
ہh, x/h/ɦ/
ھ_h/ʰ/
ءʿ/ʔ/
یy/j/
ےe/e/

References

  1. Ushoji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Kohistanic Shina". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  3. "Did you know Ushojo is threatened?".
  4. mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Ushojo.htm
  5. https://fli-online.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ushojo-Alifbe-.pdf

Decker 1992 Ushojo


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