Wanetsi

Vanechi (Pashto: وڼېڅي‎), also called Tareenō (Pashto: ترينو‎), Chalgarī (Pashto: څلګري‎ salgarī), or Vanechi, 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 to	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Region	Balochistan
Native speakers	95,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Iranian Northeastern Pashto Wanetsi
Writing system	Pashto alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wne
Glottolog	wane1241[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

Wanetsi	Kandahari	Translation
sī	səl	hundred
šwī	šəl	twenty
agha/gha (postposition)	da (preposition)	of
mōš	muẓ̌	we
piyār	plār	father
yirž	yiẓ̌	bear
tərža	təẓ̌ay	thirsty
tōw, tōwa	tod, tawda	hot
ğandəm	ğanəm	wheat
māst	myāst	month
atā	atyā	eighty
wžəndz	ẓ̌mundz	comb
sunzən	stən	needle
brēstəṇ	bṛastən	quilt
činostang	kṣ̌enāstəl	to sit down
wayang	wayəl	to say
ze kī	zə kawəm	I do

Examples of sentences showing the difference:[3]

Wanetsi	Kandahari	Translation
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

• Wazirwola
• Ormuri language
• Pamiri languages

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

External links

• Word list of terms in Wanetsi and other languages