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The <span style="background:#EEE8AA;padding:0px 2px;">words</span> that have been borrowed and are non-native to Yassi, are colour coded. The phonemes /q/, /f/ tend to be replaced by /k/, /p/. | The <span style="background:#EEE8AA;padding:0px 2px;">words</span> that have been borrowed and are non-native to Yassi, are colour coded. The phonemes /q/, /f/ tend to be replaced by /k/, /p/. | ||
== Vocabulary == | |||
The huge amount of the basic vocabulary is inherited from Proto-Uralic. However, there are also ancient loans from neighboring Iranian dialects or Proto-Iranian itself. Rather recent loans into Yassi include Persian (and through that, Arabic) and Hindustani. | |||
=== Numerals === | |||
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! Numeral !! Inherited <br/> Yassi !! Loan <br/> Proto-Iranian | |||
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| one || ǝs || | |||
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| two || kas || | |||
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| three || nǝk || | |||
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| four || per || | |||
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| five || wit || | |||
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| six || || špağ | |||
|- | |||
| seven || || ow | |||
|- | |||
| eight || ksoray || at | |||
|- | |||
| nine || sowr, swor || nǝ | |||
|- | |||
| ten || kǝswit || las | |||
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| eleven || || | |||
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| twelve || || | |||
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| thirteen || || | |||
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| twenty || || | |||
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| thirty || || | |||
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| forty || || | |||
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| hundred || || sǝl | |||
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| two hundred || || | |||
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| thousand || || zǝr | |||
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| ten thousand || || wewar | |||
|} | |||
[[Category:Uralic languages]] | [[Category:Uralic languages]] | ||
Revision as of 15:27, 10 March 2016
| Yassi | |
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| Created by | – |
| Native to | Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan |
| Native speakers | 150 (2004) |
Uralic
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Yassi is a Uralic language spoken in the Yas River Valley in north-eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, China and Tajikistan.
Classification
For a long time, Yassi was seen as one of the languages that belong to the areal Pamir language group. However, nowadays is seen as an Uralic language, though its exact relationship to the Uralic languages is a matter of debate.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a | ɑ |
Yassi also has the diphthongs /ai/, /ɑi/, /əi/, /ɑw/, /aw/, /oi/, /ui/.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k | q | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | ʃ | ç | x | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʐ | ʒ | ʝ | ɣ | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||||
| Rhotic | r | ɺ̢ | ||||||||
The words that have been borrowed and are non-native to Yassi, are colour coded. The phonemes /q/, /f/ tend to be replaced by /k/, /p/.
Vocabulary
The huge amount of the basic vocabulary is inherited from Proto-Uralic. However, there are also ancient loans from neighboring Iranian dialects or Proto-Iranian itself. Rather recent loans into Yassi include Persian (and through that, Arabic) and Hindustani.
Numerals
| Numeral | Inherited Yassi |
Loan Proto-Iranian |
|---|---|---|
| one | ǝs | |
| two | kas | |
| three | nǝk | |
| four | per | |
| five | wit | |
| six | špağ | |
| seven | ow | |
| eight | ksoray | at |
| nine | sowr, swor | nǝ |
| ten | kǝswit | las |
| eleven | ||
| twelve | ||
| thirteen | ||
| twenty | ||
| thirty | ||
| forty | ||
| hundred | sǝl | |
| two hundred | ||
| thousand | zǝr | |
| ten thousand | wewar |