Wanetsi
Wanetsi (وڼېڅي) | ||
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Spoken in |
Pakistan , Afghanistan | |
speaker | 95,000 (1998) [1] | |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
wne [2] |
Waṇētsī ( Pashto : وڼېڅي), also called Tarino ( Pashto : ترينو), Chalgarī ( Pashto : څلګري) or Waneci , is a Pashtun dialect used by a small minority in Pakistan and Afghanistan, primarily in Harnai and Sanjawi east of Quetta in northern Balochistan , is spoken. Wanetsi has some similarities to Munji and other East Iranian languages.
Differences from Kandahari-Pashto and other Indo-European languages
German | Wanetsi | Kandahari Pashto | Latin | English |
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Hundred | sī | səl | Centum | hundred |
Twenty | šwī | šəl | Viginti | twanty |
from | agha / gha (post position) |
there (preposition) |
a | of |
we | mōš | must | nos (verb ending: -mos) | we |
father | piyār | plār | Father | father |
bear | yirž | yiẓ̌ | ursus | bear |
thirsty | tərža | təẓ̌ay | sitio | thirsty |
hot | tōw, tōwa | death, tawda | claidi | hit |
wheat | ğandəm | ğanəm | triticum | wheat |
month | mast | myast | mensis | month |
Eighty | atā | atyā | octoginta | eighty |
Comb | wžəndz | ẓ̌mundz | comb | |
needle | sunzən | stən | needle | |
ceiling | brēstəṇ | bṛastən | laquearia | quilt |
sit down | činostang | kṣ̌enāstəl | sedere | to sit |
say, call | vayang | vayəl | vocare, dicere | to say / to call |
I do | ze kī | zə kawəm | facio | to do |
With some vocabulary it can also be seen that the words have the same Indo-European origin as Latin or English words.
Examples of sentences showing the difference in dialects:
Wanetsi | Kandahari | translation |
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اندي وګوړي چي موښ پيار غه څټ لېژدي وي indī waguṛī čī mōš piyār ğa tsaṭ lēždī wī |
په دې کلي کې زموږ د پلار ډېر غويان وو pə de kəli ke zmuẓ̌ da plār ḍer ğwayān wu |
Our father had many cops in this village. |
شمزې و خوارږه شوې مي دې غوزين šamze o xwāržə šwe mī de ğōzīn |
شلومبې او خوږې شيدې هم چښي šlombe aw xwaẓ̌e šide ham čṣ̌i |
[They] also drink buttermilk and sweet milk. |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wanesi. In: MultiTree. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Waneci. In: Ethnologue . Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Glottolog 4.2.1 - Waneci. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ AFGHANISTAN vi. Paṧto, F. Waṇecī. . In: G. Morgenstierne . Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Version. Retrieved February 15, 2012.