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 (2024), the primary innovations of the Southeastern dialect include secondary vowel length from monophthongization of vowel + v, a progressive suffix -n-, intervocalic consonant lenition (usually sibilants and velars), post-nasal voicing, and merger of Proto-Nuristani pre-tonic *a and *ā as a.

Phonology The inventory as described by Richard Strand.The Sound System of kâmvʹiri 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 LabialDental/AlveolarRetroflexPost-AlveolarVelarPlosivevoicelessvoicedAffricatevoicelessvoicedFricativevoiceless()()voicedNasalTap()Approximantlateralcentral

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 . One suffix voices to for most speakers.

The sequences are phonetically affricates.

Nasals voice a following obstruent.

Laminal consonants change a following from to .

Vowels FrontCentralBackHigh ( )Mid Low ()

is after another vowel, after a laminal consonant and after . For some speakers, it is after . Otherwise it is or .

Vocabulary Pronouns PersonDirectGenitiveOblique1stsg.õ, õċyĩyī̃pl.yimóyimṓ2ndsg.tütutūpl.šošō

Numbers e, ev, ē dü tre što puč ṣu sut vuṣṭ nu duċ yaníċ diċ triċ štreċ pačíċ ṣeċ satíċ aṣṭíċ neċ viċí

Southeastern Katë dialect

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