Ormuri (اورموړی)

Ormuri is an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in southern Pakistan, and also in eastern Afghanistan, by about 6,430 people. In Pakistan it is spoken by about 6,380 people mainly in the town of Kaniguram (کانی گُرم) in South Waziristan. In Afghanistan there are about 50 speakers of Ormuri in Charkh district of Logar province.

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Ormuri is also known as Baraki, Baraks, Bargista, Ormori, Ormui, Ormur, Oormuri, Ormur or Urmuri. There are two dialects: Kanigurami and Logar.

Ormuri is written with the Naskh version of the Arabic alphabet, and there is some literature, a dictionary, grammar and other printed material in the language.

Arabic alphabet for Ormuri

[画像:Latin alphabet for Ormuri]

Download a chart of the Ormuri alphabet (Excel)

Details provided by Michael Peter Füstumum

Sample texts

[画像:Sample text in Ormuri]

Translation

Although I don't mind guests coming but her half-hearted coming didn't make me happy. I have matured early and will soon grow old, O! Youth where have you gone, as I don't feel youthful even while I am young.

Source: http://www.khyber.org/publications/016-020/ormuri.shtml

[画像:Sample text in Ormuri]

Transliteration

Āra insanāni di xlās ga pasaringir āǧak hin izat ga huqoq i nar. Kuray kilday ā xudāy pikir ga zamir ržyok hā ga pakar hā ka sa bi gir gad ta marzātob runṛānyi nar kar kayin.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-6tFya37c - Provided by Michael Peter Füstumum

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Sample videos in and about Ormuri

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Links

Information about Ormuri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormuri
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/oru
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4930
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_oru_detail-1
http://www.khyber.org/publications/016-020/ormuri.shtml

Iranian languages

Avestan, Bactrian Baluchi, Bartangi, Dari, Gilaki, Hazaragi, Ishkashimi, Judeo-Persian, Juhuri, Khufi, Kumzari, Kurdish, Luri, Mazandarani, Munji, Ossetian, Ormuri, Oroshor, Persian, Parthian, Pashto, Rushani, Sanglechi, Sarikoli, Shabaki, Shughni, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Wakhi, Wanetsi, Yaghnobi, Yazghulami, Yidgha, Zazaki

Languages written with the Arabic script

Adamaua Fulfulde, Aer, Afrikaans, Arabic (Algerian), Arabic (Bedawi), Arabic (Chadian), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Gulf), Arabic (Hassaniya), Arabic (Hejazi), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Libyan), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Arabic (Najdi), Arabic (Sudanese), Arabic (Syrian), Arabic (Tunisian), Arwi, Äynu, Azeri, Balanta-Ganja, Balti, Baluchi, Beja, Belarusian, Bosnian, Brahui, Chagatai, Chechen, Chittagonian, Comorian, Crimean Tatar, Dameli, Dargwa, Dari, Dhatki, Dogri, Domari, Gawar Bati, Gawri, Gilaki, Hausa, Hazaragi, Hindko, Humburi Senni, Indus Kohistani, Kabyle, Kalkoti, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khowar, Khorasani Turkic, Khwarezmian, Konkani, Kumzari, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgi, Lop, Luri, Maasina Fulfulde, Maba, Maguindanao, Malay, Malay (Terengganu), Mandinka, Marwari, Mazandarani, Mogholi, Morisco, Mozarabic, Munji, Noakhailla, Nubi, Ormuri, Palula, Parkari Koli, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Qashqai, Rajasthani, Rohingya, Salar, Saraiki, Sawi, Serer, Shabaki, Shina, Shughni, Sindhi, Somali, Soninke, Tatar, Tausūg, Tawallammat Tamajaq, Tayart Tamajeq, Ternate, Torwali, Turkish, Urdu, Ushoji, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi, Wanetsi, Wolof, Xiao'erjing, Yidgha

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