Kundal Shahi language
Kundal Shahi is a Dardic language spoken by about 700 people in the Kundal Shahi village of Neelam Valley in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is an endangered language and its speakers are shifting to Hindko.
| Kundal Shahi | |
|---|---|
| کنڈل شاہی | |
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Neelam Valley |
Native speakers | 700 (2005)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | shd |
| Glottolog | kund1257 |
  Kundal Shahi  Kundal Shahi | |
| Coordinates: 34.5548°N 73.8439°E | |
Phonology
The following tables set out the phonology of Kundal Shahi.[2]
Vowels
Kundal Shahi is unusual amongst Dardic languages in that it has front rounded vowels.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i iː | y yː | u uː | |
| Close-Mid | e eː | øː | ə | o oː |
| Open-Mid | ɛ ɛː | ʌ | ɔ ɔː | |
| Open | a aː | |||
Consonants
Like Kashmiri, Kundal Shahi is unusual amongst Dardic languages in that it lacks retroflex fricatives and affricates.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | (ŋ) | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | ||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | tʃ | |||||
| aspirated | tʃʰ | ||||||
| voiced | dʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h | |
| voiced | z | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɽ | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
Tone
Kundal Shahi, like many Dardic languages, has either phonemic tone or, as in Kundal Shahi, pitch accent.[4] Words may have only one accented mora, which is associated with high pitch; the remaining mora have a default or low pitch.[3]
References
- Kundal Shahi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Baart & Rehman 2005, pp. 10–13.
- Baart & Rehman 2005.
- Baart 2003, pp. 3, 6.
Bibliography
- Baart, Joan L. G. (2003), Tonal features in languages of northern Pakistan (PDF), National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics, pp. 3, 6
- Baart, Joan L. G.; Rehman, Khawaja A. (2005). "A first look at the language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir". SIL Electronic Working Papers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Further reading
- Rehman, Khawaja A. (2011). "Ergativity In Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri And Hindko". In Mark Turin; Bettina Zeisler (eds.). Himalayan languages and linguistics: studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax. Brill's Tibetan studies library, Languages of the greater Himalayan region. Leiden: Brill. pp. 219–234. ISBN 978-90-04-19448-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Rehman, Khawaja A. (2011). Language Shift In the Neelam Valley: A Case Study of the Kundal Shahi Language (PhD). Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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