Wanetsi

Waṇētsī (Pashto: وڼېڅي‎), also called Tarīnō (Pashto: ترينو‎), Chalgarī (Pashto: څلګري‎ tsalgarī), or Waneci, is a Pashto dialect which is spoken by a small population of Tareen tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, primarily in Harnai and Sanjawi area east of Quetta, northern Balochistan, Pakistan. Wanetsi has some similarities with the Pamir language of Munji, which is spoken in the southern part of Badakhshan Province, northeastern Afghanistan.[3]

Wanetsi
Native toPakistan, Afghanistan
RegionBalochistan
Native speakers
95,000 (1998)[1]
Pashto alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3wne
Glottologwane1241[2]

Although usually considered a Pashto dialect, the prevailing view of modern scholars is that Wanetsi may be considered a separate language, which branched off from modern Pashto in the early Middle Iranian stage before some of the characteristics of Pashto had been fully developed. Prods Oktor Skjærvø states:

The Pashto area split into two dialect groups at a pre-literary period, represented today on the one hand by all the dialects of modern Pashto and on the other by Waneci and by archaic remains in other southeast dialects.[4]

Now Wanetsi is getting more and more influenced by standard Pashto. There are also dialectal divisions within Wanetsi, although the variation between them is very small.

Differences between Wanetsi and Kandahari Pashto
WanetsiKandahariTranslation
sīsəlhundred
šwīšəltwenty
agha/gha
(postposition)		da
(preposition)		of
mōšmuẓ̌we
piyārplārfather
yiržyiẓ̌bear
təržatəẓ̌aythirsty
tōw, tōwatod, tawdahot
ğandəmğanəmwheat
māstmyāstmonth
atāatyāeighty
wžəndzẓ̌mundzcomb
sunzənstənneedle
brēstəṇbṛastənquilt
činostangkṣ̌enāstəlto sit down
wayangwayəlto say
ze kīzə kawəmI do

Examples of sentences showing the difference:[3]

WanetsiKandahariTranslation
اندي وګوړي چي موښ پيار غه څټ لېژدي وي
indī waguṛī čī mōš piyār ğa tsaṭ lēždī wī		په دې کلي کې زموږ د پلار ډېر غويان وو
pə de kəli ke zmuẓ̌ da plār ḍer ğwayān wu		In this village our father had many bulls.
شمزې و خوارږه شوې مي دې غوزين
šamze o xwāržə šwe mī de ğōzīn		شلومبې او خوږې شيدې هم چښي
šlombe aw xwaẓ̌e šide ham čṣ̌i		[They] also drink buttermilk and sweet milk.

See also

References
  1. Wanetsi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Waneci". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "AFGHANISTAN vi. Paṧto, F. Waṇecī". G. Morgenstierne. Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Version. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  4. Hallberg, Daniel G. 1992. Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri. Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 4. LINK
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