Ushoji language
Ushoji or Ushojo 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.Numerals
| English gloss | Ushoji | |
| 1 | one | ɪk |
| 2 | two | du |
| 3 | three | t͡ʃe |
| 4 | four | t͡ʃar |
| 5 | five | pʰʊʃ |
| 6 | six | ʃɑ |
| 7 | seven | sɑʈ |
| 8 | eight | ɑʈ |
| 9 | nine | nəo |
| 10 | ten | de |
| 20 | twenty | bɪey |
| 100 | hundred | sao |
| 1000 | thousand | zʌr |
Orthography
Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.| Letter | Romanization | IPA |
| ā | ||
| a | ||
| ʿ | ||
| b | ||
| p | ||
| t | ||
| ṭ | ||
| ǰ | ||
| č | ||
| ċ | ||
| c | ||
| ǩ | ||
| d | ||
| ḍ | ||
| r | ||
| ṛ | ||
| z | ||
| ż | ||
| ž | ||
| s | ||
| š | ||
| ṣ | ||
| ʿ | ||
| ǧ | ||
| f | ||
| k | ||
| g | ||
| l | ||
| m | ||
| n | ||
| w | ||
| h, x | ||
| _h | ||
| ʿ | ||
| y | ||
| e |