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 (s) ǰ č ċ c (h) ǩ d ḍ (z) r ṛ z ż ž s š ṣ (s) (d) (t) (z) ʿ ǧ f (k) k g l m n w h, x _h ʿ y e

References

Decker 1992 Ushojo