Ushoji language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan

Ushoji or Ushojo (اُݜوجو, Uṣōǰō; pronounced [ʊˈʂoːd͡ʒoː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Status

Ushoji may be severely endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.^[3]

Numerals

Orthography

Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.^[5]

References

1. Ushoji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Kohistanic Shina". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
3. "Did you know Ushojo is threatened?".
4. "Language name and location: Ushojo, Pakistan". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
5. "اُڜوجو (Ushojo)" (PDF) (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-01-19.

Decker 1992 Ushojo