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Preferred term

oruOrmuri  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ormuri is a member of the Southeastern branch of the Eastern Iranian languages, but attempts to classify Ormuri in the Northwestern Iranian languages have also been made. It is spoken in the city of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan by the Burki people. It may also be spoken by a few people in Baraki Barak in Logar, Afghanistan. It is notable for its unusual sound inventory, which includes a voiceless alveolar trill (contrastive with the more common voiced variety) i.e. the ř of Czech, and voiceless and voiced alveolo-palatal fricatives (the voiceless being contrastive with the more common voiceless palato-alveolar fricative), i.e. the ښ and ږ of Waziri.

Entry terms

  • Ormuri language

ISO 639-3 code

  • oru

Notation

  • oru

In other languages

  • Ormuri

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/oru

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