Ormuri language

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The Ormuri language is an endangered Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by small communities in eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan.

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Label Occurrences
Ormuri language canonical 9

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
endangered language
language
alternativeName Baraki
Bargista
Ormur
Ormuri
linked to: Ormur
classifiedAs distinct from Pashto
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentStatus severely endangered
family Indo-Iranian languages
hasConsonantInventorySize large
hasContactWith Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Persian
linked to: Persian language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Persian
linked to: Persian language
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
series of affricates
vowel length distinction
hasStressPattern word-final stress (tendency)
hasVowelInventorySize moderate
hasWordOrder SOV
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
languageCodeISO639-3 oru
languageShiftTo Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
numberOfSpeakersEstimate few thousand
primaryCommunity Kaniguram
Logar Province
region Hindu Kush region
linked to: Hindu Kush

South Asia
spokenBy Baraki people
Ormuri people
linked to: Ormur people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
spokenInRegion eastern Afghanistan
western Pakistan
subbranch Eastern Iranian languages
subfamily Iranian languages
threatenedBy bilingualism with Pashto
lack of intergenerational transmission
urbanization
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pamir languages hasMember Ormuri language
Ormui usesLanguage Ormuri language
Ormui ethnonymLanguage Ormuri language
Ormur people language Ormuri language
Ormur people nativeLanguage Ormuri language
Ormur people endangeredLanguage Ormuri language
Kaniguram dialect subdivisionOf Ormuri language
Kaniguram dialect languageFamily Ormuri language