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 glossUshoji
1oneɪk
2twodu
3threet͡ʃe
4fourt͡ʃar
5fivepʰʊʃ
6sixʃɑ
7sevensɑʈ
8eightɑʈ
9ninenəo
10tende
20twentybɪey
100hundredsao
1000thousandzʌr

Orthography

Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.
LetterRomanizationIPA
ā
a
ʿ
b
p
t
ǰ
č
ċ
c
ǩ
d
r
z
ż
ž
s
š
ʿ
ǧ
f
k
g
l
m
n
w
h, x
_h
ʿ
y
e