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Torwali
RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
Native speakers
110,000[1][2] (2001)[3]
Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3trw
Glottologtorw1241
Torwali is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken in Central Swat District, it is given a space in this map.
Bahrain, the main town of the Torwali community

Torwali (Urdu: توروالی) is a Dardic[4] language of the Northwestern Indo-Aryan family spoken by 80,000 - 110,000 people [5] in the Bahrain and Chail areas of the Swat District in Northern Pakistan.[6] It is said to have originated from the pre-Muslim Dardic communities of Pakistan.[7] It has two dialects, Bahrain and Chail.[8] The language and its community, like other communities, Gawri in Swat and in Dir, and the ones in Indus Kohistan, is often referred to as "Kohistani" which is a name given by the Swat Pashtuns. Fredrik Barth says "By the Swat Pashtuns, the people are known as Kohistanis, together with the other non-Pashtun peoples given that name; together with the Torwalis, Kohistanis of Swat Kohistan". The Afghans call them 'Kohistani'--a name everywhere given by Pashtuns to 'the Musulmans of Indic descent living' in Hindu Kush.[9][10] Torwalik, like other Dardic communities, are unaware of their origins due to invasions by outsiders [11]. Thus, most of them today identify themselves with either Arabs or Pashtuns [12]. Additionally, the language lacked a writing system until 2007 when it adapted a Perso-Arabic script [13][12]. Presently, close to 30-35% of its speakers have migrated permanently to the bigger cities of Pakistan where their language is either being replaced by the national language Urdu, or by other languages of wider communication such as Pashto or Punjabi. [14]

Torwali is an endangered language: it is characterized as "definitely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of Endangered Languages,[15] and as "vulnerable" by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages.[16] Its endangerment is due to various reasons such as " political organization, marred identities, no written tradition, and marginalization, globalization, the rule of dominant languages over these languages, rough terrain, poverty and so forth". [17] There have been efforts to revitalize the language since 2004, and mother tongue community schools have been established by Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT).[18]

Phonology

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Although descriptions of Torwali phonology have appeared in the literature, some questions still remain unanswered.[19][20]

Vowels

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Vowels According to Edelman[19]
Front Central Back
Close i iː u uː
Mid e eː o oː
Open a aː

Edelman's analysis, which was based on Grierson and Morgenstierne, shows nasal counterparts to at least /e o a/ and also found a series of central (reduced?) vowels, transcribed as: ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ü⟩, ⟨ö⟩.[19]

Vowels According to Lunsford[20]
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ (ɨ̙) u ũ
Mid e ẽ (e̙) ə (ə̙) o õ
Open æ æ̃ a ã

Lunsford had some difficulty determining vowel phonemes and suggested there may be retracted vowels with limited distribution: /ɨ/ (which may be [i̙]), /e̙/, /ə̙/.[20] Retracted or retroflex vowels are also found in Kalash-mondr.[21]

Consonants

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The phonemic status of the breathy voiced series is debatable.

Sounds with particularly uncertain status are marked with a superscript question mark.

Labial Coronal Retroflex Post-alv./
Palatal 		Velar Glottal
Nasal m n (ɳ)
Stop p
pʰ		 b
bʱ 		t
tʰ		 d
dʱ 		ʈ
ʈʰ		 ɖ
ɖʱ 		k
kʰ		 g
ɡʱ
Affricate (ts)?
 		 ʈʂ
ʈʂʰ		 ɖʐ
  		tʃ
tʃʰ		 dʒ
 
Fricative
(Lateral) 		s ʂ ʐ ʃ ʒ x ɣ h
(t)ɬ?
Approximant
(Lateral) 		j w
l
Rhotic r ɽ?

References

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  1. ^ Khan, Amber. "Timeline of Torwali Speaker Estimates". torwali.omeka.net. Amber Khan for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2014). "Vestiges of Torwali culture". Researchgate.net. Bahrain Swat: Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT). p. 4. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2272.1049. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ Torwali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  4. ^ Kreutzmann, Hermann (2005). "Linguistic diversity in space and time: A survey in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram". Himalayan Linguistics. 4. Center for Development Studies, Free University of Berlin: 7.
  5. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2019-07-31). "Revitalizing Torwali Folk Music Using Media of Translation, Audio, Video". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies. 1 (4): 213–219. ISSN 2663-7197.
  6. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2016). "Reversing Language Loss through an Identity Based Educational Planning: The Case of Torwali language" (PDF). Eurasian Journal of Humanities. 1 (2): 24. ISSN 2413-9947.
  7. ^ Inam-ur-Rahim; Viaro, lain M. (2002). Swat: An Afghan Society in Pakistan. Karachi and Geneva: City Press and Graduate Institute of Developmental Studies. ISBN 9698380558. OCLC 603642121.
  8. ^ Ullah, Inam (2004). "Lexical database of the Torwali Dictionary", paper presented at the Asia Lexicography Conference, Chiangmai, Thailand, May 24–26
  9. ^ Biddulph, John (1880). Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh (PDF). Graz, Austria: 1971 edition Akadmeische Druck u Verlagasasntalt. p. 69.
  10. ^ Barth, Fredrik (1956). Indus and Swat Kohistan: an Ethnographic Survey. Oslo. p. 52.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) . The Pathans call them, and all other Muhammadans of Indian descent in the Hindu Kush valleys, Kohistanis.
  11. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2020-08-31). "Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Torwali". ZAS Papers in Linguistics. 64: 241–248. doi:10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.583. ISSN 1435-9588.
  12. ^ a b Torwali, Zobair (2018). "STRENGTHENING LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY A CASE OF TORWALI LANGUAGE". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
  13. ^ Uddin, Naeem; Uddin, Jalal (2019). "A step towards Torwali machine translation: an analysis of morphosyntactic challenges in a low-resource". Dublin: 19–23.
  14. ^ Torwali, Zubair. "Revitalization of Torwali poetry and music". We Mountains – Regional Website of North Pakistan. IBT. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  15. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2016). "Reversing Language Loss through an Identity Based Educational Planning: The Case of Torwali language" (PDF). Eurasian Journal of Humanities. 1 (2): 24.
  16. ^ Hammarström, Harald. "Torwali". Glottolog. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  17. ^ Torwali, Zubair (2017), "Challenges to the linguistic diversity of North Pakistan", Criterion Quarterly, vol. 12
  18. ^ Lilgegren, Henrik (March 2018). "41". Supporting and sustaining language vitality in northern Pakistan. Routledge. p. 431.
  19. ^ a b c Edelman, D. I. (1983). The Dardic and Nuristani Languages. Moscow: Institut vostokovedenii︠a︡ (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR).
  20. ^ a b c Lunsford, Wayne A. (2001), "An overview of linguistic structures in Torwali, a language of Northern Pakistan" (PDF), M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Arlington: 26–30
  21. ^ Kochetov, Alexei; Arsenault, Paul (2008), Retroflex harmony in Kalasha: Agreement or spreading? (PDF), NELS, vol. 39, Cornell University, p. 4
  • Torwali, Zubair (2019). "Revitalizing Torwali Folk Music Using Media of Translation, Audio, Video". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies. 1 (4): 213–219.
  • Torwali, Zubair (2020). "Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Torwali". ZAS Papers in Linguistics. 64: 241–248. doi:10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.583.
  • Torwali, Zubair (2017). "Challenges to the linguistic diversity of North Pakistan". Criterion Quarterly. 12 (1).
  • Torwali, Zobair (2018). "STRENGTHENING LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY A CASE OF TORWALI LANGUAGE". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Uddin, Naeem; Uddin, Jalal (2019). "A step towards Torwali machine translation: an analysis of morphosyntactic challenges in a low-resource". Dublin: 19–23.
  • Ullah, Inam (2019). "Digital Dictionary Development for Torwali, a less-studied language: Process and Challenges". Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. 2: 11–16.

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