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Ormuri
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Classification
Ormuri is classified under the Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern Iranian, Southeastern Iranian, and Ormuri-Parachi language groups.Endangered Languages ProjectEthnologueLanguage status
According to the Endangered Languages Project, the language of Ormuri is highly threatened. The language is used for face-to-face communication, however it is losing users.BOOK,weblink The Ormuri Language in Past and Present, V.A., Efimov, 2011, Forum for Language Initiatives, 978-969-9437-02-1, Islamabad, Baart, Joan L.G., 1986 original Russian edition,History
The Ormuri language is used by the Ormur/Baraki tribe in parts of the Kaniguram Valley in Waziristan, Pakistan. The language is also used in a small part of Logar Province, Afghanistan.JOURNAL, Scott, D. A., 1984, Zoroastrian Traces along the Upper Amu Darya (Oxus), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 116, 2, 217â228, 10.1017/S0035869X00163567, 25211708, 163761565,Ormuri tribe
An alternate name used by the Ormur people is Baraki. It is believed that there were eight to ten thousand families in the Logar area at the beginning of the 19th century and approximately four to five hundred families in Kaniguram at the beginning of the 20th century. The Ormur tribe does not occupy an ethnically homogeneous territory. In Afghanistan, the Ormur people live in mixed communities with both Tajiks and Pashtun. Whereas, in Pakistan, the Ormur people live only with the Pashtuns.Early history of the tribe can be traced in Herodotus' book. The Persian Emperor Darius Hystaspes; Governor of Egypt conquered the Greek colonies of Barca and Cyrene in Libya and took them to Egypt on their return from expedition. At this time, the King returned from his Scythian campaign to his capital, Susa. The Barakis were given a village in Bactria to live in, later named Barke. After two thousand three hundred and fifty years, the village was still inhabited in 1891 within the same territory.Ormuri language
The name 'Ormur' (ormÉá¹) is originally derived from Pashto (meaning fire). The first man to have made mention of the Baraki language was Babar, in his book Baburnama. Ormuri, also called Birki at the time was one of the eleven to twelve tongues that were observed by Babar while in the region of Kabul. It is known that many of the Ormuri speakers are at least bilingual or trilingual, speaking other tribal languages such as Pashto, Persian, Dari, or KaboliPir Roshan (Bayazid Khan) was one of the first known Pashto prose writers and composers of Pashto alphabets who used several Ormuri words in his book "Khairul-Bayan." A few of the words that were used within his book were Nalattti (Pigs), Nmandzak of Mazdak (Mosque), Teshtan (Owner), Burghu (flout), Haramunai (ill-born), etc.Research
(File:Ormuri-Research.jpg|thumb|150px|In Pashto: A historical examination of Ormuri)Hikmatyar Burki has also done an MPhil on Ormuri and published his work through the Pashto Academy.WEB, Pashto Academy Peshawar :: Ù¾Úت٠اکÛÚÙ Ù Ù¾ÛÚÙر,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20190318041729weblink">weblink usurped, March 18, 2019, 2021-04-10, khyber.org,Geographic distribution
Ormuri is spoken primarily in the town of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan. A small population also speaks it in the town of Baraki Barak in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The language is sustained by nearly fifty adherents in Afghanistan and around five to six thousand speakers in Pakistan(File:Lowgar districts.png|thumb|Districts of Logar province. This image does not include Azra district, located to the east of Khoshi and Mohammad Agha districts.)File:FATA (8).jpg|thumb|right|200px|North (purple) and South (blue) Waziristan and surrounding Federally Administered Tribal AreasFederally Administered Tribal AreasDialects
There are two dialects of Ormuri; one is spoken in Kaniguram, Waziristan, which is the more archaic dialect, and the other one in Baraki-Barak, Logar. The Kaniguram dialect is not understood in Baraki-Barak. The linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote: .}}The dialect of Kaniguram is currently strong, spoken by a relatively prosperous community of Ormur in an isolated part of the rugged Waziristan hills. However, the position of the dialect of Baraki Barak is not strong. Morgenstierne wrote he was told that:Lexical differences {| class "wikitable"|+ Table 1: Lexical differences in Ormuri
Differences in phonetic forms {| class "wikitable"|+ Table 2: Differences in the phonetic form of vowels in Ormuri
Phonology
Consonants {| class"wikitable" style"text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |! rowspan="2" |Labial! rowspan="2" |Dental/Alveolar! rowspan="2" |Retroflex! rowspan="2" |Post-alv./Palatal! rowspan="2" |Velar! colspan="2" |Uvular!Glottal- Only in Kaniguram.
- Only in Logar.
Vowels {| class"wikitable" style"text-align:center"
!!Front!Central! colspan="2" |Back- Only in Kaniguram.
- Only in Logar.
Syllabic Patterns
Proper Ormuri words will have the following syllabic patterns: V, VC, CV, CCV, (C)VCC, CVC, CCVC, CCVCC. Both dialects from Kaniguram and Logar have similar syllabic structure.Examples
- a- this
- un/wun- so much
- pe- father
- gri- mountain
- åxt- eight
- måx- we
- spok- dog
- breš- burn
- broxt- burned
- wroxt- beard
- al-gox-tok- to fall
- kir-žÃ- hen
- er-zåk- to come
Morphology
The language has undergone extensive change in comparison to its ancestral self. For nominal morphology (nouns, adjectives, and pronouns), aspects of the Kaniguram dialect of grammatical gender has completely been lost in the Logar. In terms of the verbal morphology, there is a greater variety of conjugations of modal and tense-aspect forms based on the present-tense stem. There is also a distinction made between masculine and feminine words based on the past-tense system. Finally, there is a greater number of distinctions between within the system of tense-aspect forms and there are different types of ergative constructions.There is a developed system of noun and verb inflections. Nominal parts of speech contains: Three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), and the verb has two voices (active and middle). There is the elimination of the category of case (loss in nouns, adjectives, numerals, and certain pronouns). There is also a complete loss of the category of gender, varying on the dialect (Complete loss in Logar and rudimentary masculine and feminine forms remain in Kaniguram). In Logar most original Ormuri nouns and adjectives have a simple stem ending in a consonant and a few nouns end in unstressed (or rarely stressed) -a or -i. Whereas in Kaniguram, the stem usually ends in a consonant, but both nouns and adjectives may end in -a or -i.Orthography
Ormuri uses the Pashto script with the additional letters ' /rÌ/ , ' /Ê/ and /É/ : {| class="wikitable"! rowspan="2" |Name!IPA! rowspan="2" |Transliteration! colspan="3" |Contextual forms! rowspan="2" |Isolated! rowspan="2" |Latin! rowspan="2" |Unicode(Hex)Examples
"Log." will represent examples from the Ormuri dialect of Logar and "Kan." will be used to signify the Kaniguram dialect of Ormuri- Log.: afo kÃ¥bol-ki altsok â "He went off to Kabul"
- Log.: a-saá¹ay dzok Å¡uk â "(This) man has been beaten"
- Log.: xodÃ¥ay-an bad-e badtarin sÃ¥ton â "O God, keep us from misfortune" (literal translation: "From the very worst")
- Kan.: a-nar by pa mun Ç°oá¹awak sa â "The house is being built by me"
- Kan.: sabÄ su az kÄbul-ki tsom â "Tomorrow I shall probably go to Kabul"
- Kan.: tsami a-dÄru irwar! â "Bring my eye drops"
Resources
- Ormuri Primer
- Qawaid e BargistÄ (in Hindustani)
- The Ormuri Language in Past and Present
- Linguistic Survey of India (Volume 10): Ormuri at pages 123 to 325
- (iarchive:in.gov.ignca.14416/mode/2up|Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages (Volume 1): Parachi and Ormuri)
- Clitics of Ormuri
See also
References
{{Reflist}}External links
- Ormuri at The Endangered Languages Project
- Ormuri and Bargista Language
- Ormuri and Parachi Language Analysis by Georg Morgenstierne
- Ormuri Phonetics
- {{usurped|1=weblink" title="archive.today/20120903184433weblink">Ormuri Alphabet}} by Rozi Khan Burki
- Ormuri History and Origin by The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180712204446weblink">Word list of terms in Ormuri and other languages
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