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Indo-Aryan language spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
"Gawri" redirects here. Not to be confused with Gauri, Gavri, the Gawari language of India, or the Gawar-Bati language of Chitral.
Gawri
Kalami, Bashkarik, Kohistani
کالامي ګاوری
Gāwrī, Kālāmī
Native toPakistan
RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
EthnicityKalami people[1]
Native speakers
100,000 (2004)[2]
Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gwc
Glottolog kala1373
ELP Kalami
Linguasphere 59-AAC-c
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Gawri (ګاوری), also known as Kalami (کالامي), Kalam Kohistani[3] and Bashkarik, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Swat Kohistan (also called Kalam) region in the upper Swat District and in the upper Panjkora river valley of Upper Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Gawri and Torwali are collectively classified as "Swat Kohistani".[4]

Classification

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According to its genealogical classification (Strand, 1973:302 and 2004), Gawri belongs to the Kohistani subgroup of the north-western zone of Indo-Aryan languages, along with several closely related languages in its geographical vicinity: Torwali (in Swat south of Kalam), Indus Kohistani, Bateri, Chilisso, and Gawro (the latter four east of Kalam in Indus Kohistan). Together with a range of other north-western Indo-Aryan mountain languages, these languages are sometimes collectively referred to as ‘Dardic’ languages.[5]

Geographic distribution

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Gawri is one of about thirty languages that are spoken in the mountain areas of northern Pakistan. Kohistan is a Persian word that means ‘land of mountains’ and Kohistani can be translated as ‘mountain language’. As a matter of fact, there are several distinct languages in the area that are all popularly called Kohistani. The language under study in this paper is spoken in the upper parts of the valley of the Swat River, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. The name of the principal village of this area is Kalam, and hence the area is known as Kalam Kohistan. In the older linguistic literature, the language of Kalam Kohistan is referred to as Bashkarik (Morgenstierne, 1940), or as Garwi or Gawri (Grierson, 1919; Barth & Morgenstierne, 1958). These names are hardly, if at all, known to the speakers of the language themselves, who normally just call their language Kohistani. However, very recently a number of intellectuals belonging to a local cultural society have started to call their language Gawri, a name that has old historical roots.

The same language is also spoken across the mountains to the West of Kalam Kohistan, in the upper reaches of the Panjkora river valley of Upper Dir District. When added together, the two Kalam-Kohistani-speaking communities comprised over 200,000 people.

Alphabet

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Gawri uses the Arabic script. The Gawri alphabet has 43 letters: all 39 letters of the Urdu alphabet plus 4 additional letters. One feature of the Gawri alphabet not found in Urdu is that it places the letterھ as the last letter of the alphabet, preceded by ے. All the 4 additional letters used in Gawri are also found in Gawar-Bati language.

Letter ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ڄ څ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ݭ ص
Transliteration ∅/ā/ǟ b p t s j č ĉ c h x d z r z ž s š s
IPA [∅], [aː], [æː] [b] [p] [t] [ʈ] [s] [d͡ʒ] [tʃ] [ʈ͡ʂ] [t͡s] [h] [x] [d] [ɖ] [z] [r] [ɽ] [z] [ʒ] [s] [ʃ] [ʂ] [s]
Name اٞلِف (älif) بے (bē) پے (pē) تے (tē) ٹے (ṭē) ثے (sē) جِیم (jīm) چے (čē) ڄے (ĉē) بَڑِی حے (hē) خے (xē) دَال (dāl) ڈَال (ḍāl) ذَال (zl) رے (re) ڑے (ṛe) زے (ze) ژے (že) سِین (sīn) شِین (šīn) ݭِین (ṣīn) صوَاد (swād)
Letter ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل ݪ م ن ں و ہ ء ی ے ھ
Transliteration z t z ʼ ğ f q k g l ł m n ̃ w/ū/ō h ʼ y/ī/ē ē -h
IPA [z] [t] [z] [ʔ] [ɣ] [f] [q] [k] [ɡ] [l] [ɬ] [m] [n] [ ̃] [w], [uː], [oː] [h] [ʔ] [j], [iː], [eː] [eː] [h]
Name ضوَاد (zwād) طوے (tōē) ظوے (zōē) عٞن (ʼän) غین (ğän) فے (fē) قَاف (qāf) کٞاف (kǟf) گٞاف (gǟf) لٞام (lǟm) ݪٞام (łǟm) مِیم (mīm) نُون (nūn) نُون غُنّہ (nūn ğunna) وَاؤ (wāʼō) چھوٹِی حے (čhōṭī he) ءٞمزَہ (hämza) چھوٹِی یے (čhōṭī ye) بَڑِی یے (baṛī ye) دُوچٞشمِی ہے (dūčäšmī hē
There are 7 Aspirated consonants represented by digraphs with the letter ھ:
  • پھ (ph)
  • تھ (th)
  • ٹھ (ṭh)
  • چھ (čh)
  • ڄھ (ĉh)
  • څھ (ch)
  • کھ (kh)
 The sounds /k/ and /g/ are palatalized before Front vowels.
 There are 3 digraphs with the letter ن:
  • نڈ (nḍ) pronounced /ɳɖ/
  • نڑ (nṛ): pronounced /ɽ/
  • نگ (ng): pronounced /ŋ/ and palatalized before front vowels.[6]

Vowels

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Gawri language has 12 vowels (6 short and 6 long). They are:

  • /a/ (a)
  • /aː/ (ā)
  • /æ/ (ä)
  • /æː/ (ǟ)
  • /i/ (i)
  • /iː/ (ī)
  • /u/ (u)
  • /uː/ (ū)
  • /e/ (e)
  • /eː/ (ē)
  • /o/ (o)
  • /oː/ (ō)
 8 of these vowels (a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, ē, ō) have the same orthography as in Urdu. The vowel ä (/æ/) is written with a Zabar with two dots (ٞ) and the long version ǟ as ٞا (آٞ at the beginning of a word).
 Short e and o are represented by و, ی or ے followed by ۡ.
 Unlike in Urdu where vowel diacritics are optional, in Gawri they are mandatory.

Tones

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Gawri is a tonal language. It has 6 tones:

  • level tone: unmarked.
  • High tone: represented by ٝ, romanized with acute accent.
  • High Falling tone: represented by ٛ, romanized with circumflex.
  • low falling tone: represented by ٔ, romanized with Caron.
  • Low tone: represented by ۧ, romanized with grave accent.
  • Rising tone: represented by ٚ, romanized with ◌̚.

Phonology

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Vowels

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Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a ɑ

Length (/ː/) and nasalization (/ ̃/) are probably contrastive for all vowels.

Consonants

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Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ɳ ŋ
Stop voiceless p t ʈ k (q)
voiced b d ɖ ɡ
aspirated ph th ʈh kh
Affricate plain ts
aspirated tsh tʂh tʃh
voiced
Fricative voiceless (f) s ʂ ʃ x h
voiced z ɣ
Lateral voiceless ɬ
voiced l
Approximant j w
Flap ɾ ɽ

/qfzxɣ/ occur mainly in loanwords. /qf/ tend to be replaced by /xp/, respectively.

After the front vowels /iea/, the velars /kɡŋ/ are palatalized: [kjɡjŋj].

Tone

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Gawri has contrastive tones.

Grammar

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Syntax

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The default sentence order is SOV, but this can be changed for emphasis.

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Morphology

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Approximately 50% of Gawri words can not be broken down to smaller morphological forms. Of the other half, most words are made up of about two to three morphemes. This language implements many modifications to the stem as opposed to using distinct morpheme additions. For example, many plural words are formed by changing the stem of words as opposed to modifying with a plural morpheme.[7]

Word Meaning
masc. sg. yant ‘is coming’
masc. pl. yänt 'are coming’
fem. yent ‘is coming, are coming’

Words can also be modified by suffixes and prefixes.

Word Meaning
‘went’
gāt 'has gone’
gās̆ ‘had gone’
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The past and present of Gawri language". 5 February 2018.
  2. ^ Gawri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Baart, Joan L. G. (1997). The Sounds and Tones of Kalam Kohistani: With Wordlist and Texts. National Institute of Pakistan Studies. p. 1. ISBN 978-969-8023年03月4日.
  4. ^ Rensch, Calvin Ross; Decker, Sandra J.; Hallberg, Daniel G. (1992). "Volume I: Languages of Kohistan". In Clare F. O’Leary (ed.). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. ISBN 969-8023年11月9日.
  5. ^ Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani Archived 2007年03月05日 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Omniglot
  7. ^ Baart, J. L. (1999). A sketch of Kalam Kohistani grammar. Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan. Islamabad: National Institute of Pakistan Studies Quaid-i-Azam University.

Further reading

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  • Baart, Joan L.G. (2004). "Constrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani". Linguistic Discovery. 2 (2). doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.265 .
  • Baart, Joan and Muhammad Zaman Sagar. 2020. THE GAWRI LANGUAGE OF KALAM AND DIR KOHISTAN. Online access
  • Zaman, S. M., & Baart, J. L. (2004). Gaawri zaban-o-adab (Inmal Haq Javed ed.). Islamabad: Department of Pakistani Languages, Allama Iqbal Open University.
  • Stahl, J. L. (1988). Multilingualism in Kalam Kohistan.
  • Rensch, C. R., Decker, S. J., & Hallberg, D. G. (1992). Patterns of languages use among the Kohistanis of the Swat Valley. Languages of Kohistan. Islamabad, Pakistan: National Institute of Pakistan Studies Quaid-i-Azam University.
  • Lothers, M. D. (1996). Deixis in Kalam Kohistani narrative discourse.
  • Barth, F., & Morgenstierne, G. (1954). Vocabularies and specimens of some S.E. Dardic dialects. Oslo: Universitets forleget
  • Baart, J.L. (2006). Report on local names and uses of plants in Kalam Kohistan. FLI Language and Culture Series, Anthropology.
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