Southeastern Katë dialect
Southeastern Katë is a dialect of the Katë language spoken by the Kom and Kata in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It includes the so-called Kamviri and Mumviri dialects, spoken in Mangul, Sasku and Gabalgrom in the Bashgal Valley.
Innovations
According to Halfmann, the primary innovations of the Southeastern dialect include secondary vowel length from monophthongization of vowel + v, a progressive suffix -n-, intervocalic consonant lenition, post-nasal voicing, and merger of Proto-Nuristani pre-tonic *a and *ā as a.Phonology
The inventory as described by Richard Strand. In addition, there is stress.The neutral articulatory posture, as in the reduced vowel, consists of the tip of the tongue behind the lower teeth and a raised tongue root is linked with a raised larynx, producing a characteristic pitch for unstressed vowels of about an octave above the pitch of a relaxed larynx.
Consonants
- Sounds are found in loanwords.
- Between vowels, voice to.
- can also be heard as bilabial or a labial approximant.
- For most speakers, and especially in Kombřom, becomes a retroflex flap.
- becomes a velar tap.
The sequences are phonetically affricates.
Nasals voice a following obstruent.
Laminal consonants change a following from to.
Vowels
is after another vowel, after a laminal consonant and after. For some speakers, it is after. Otherwise it is or.Vocabulary
Pronouns
Numbers
- e, ev, ē
- dü
- tre
- što
- puč
- ṣu
- sut
- vuṣṭ
- nu
- duċ
- yaníċ
- diċ
- triċ
- štreċ
- pačíċ
- ṣeċ
- satíċ
- aṣṭíċ
- neċ
- ''viċí''