Masidwola (, meaning "of the
Mehsuds"), Mehsudi, or Maseedwola is a dialect of
Waziristani
Waziristāní (), also known as Wazirwóla (, meaning "of the Wazir (Pashtun tribe), Wazirs") and Wazirí, is a central Pashto dialect spoken in North Waziristan and South Waziristan. Waziristani differs in pronunciation and to a much lesser degr ...
.
Phonology
Rozi Khan Burki claims that in Waziristani is that the phonemes
and
along with their voiced counterparts,
and
have merged into the phonemes
and
both of which also exist in the nearby
Ormuri
Ormuri (Ormuri: اورموړی Pashto: اورموړی) also known as ''Baraki, Ormur, Ormui or Bargista '' is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. It is primarily spoken by the Burki people in the town of Ka ...
or
Warmuri language of Burkis of
Kaniguram
Kānīgūram () is a town in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan. Kaniguram's population mainly consists of the Ormur or Burki tribes of Pashtuns. It is also the hometown of the sixteenth-century Pashtun revolutionary leader and warrior-poet ...
, South Waziristan. But Pashto linguists such as Josef Elfenbein, Anna Boyle or Yousaf Khan Jazab have not noted this in Waziri Phonology.
See also
*
Waneci
Notes
Linguist List*Lorimer, John Gordon (1902). ''Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto''.
References
{{Iranian languages
Pashto dialects
Languages of Afghanistan
Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Waziristan