Ormuri
| Ormuri | |
|---|---|
| Oormuri, Urmuri, Ormur, Ormui, Bargista, Baraks, Baraki | |
| Native to | Pakistan, Afghanistan |
| Region | Waziristan, Kaniguram, Logar |
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Native speakers
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6,000 (2004) |
| Arabic (Naskh variant) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | ormu1247 |
Ormuri (also known as Oormuri, Urmuri, Ormur, Ormui, Bargista, Baraks, and Baraki) is a dialect of Waziri Pashto spoken in Waziristan. It is primarily spoken in the town of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan by the Burki people. It is also spoken by a small group of people in Baraki Barak in Logar, Afghanistan. The language belongs to the Indo-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 Waziri Pashto, but could have been adopted from Ormuri due to its close proximity.
Ormuri is classified under the Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern Iranian, Southeastern Iranian, and Ormuri-Parachi language groups
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