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| Southeastern Katë | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Region | Nuristan,Kunar |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2011)[1] |
| Arabic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bsh |
| Glottolog | kati1270 |
Southeastern Katë is adialect of theKatë language spoken by theKom andKata in parts ofAfghanistan andPakistan. It includes the so-calledKamviri andMumviri dialects, spoken inMangul,Sasku andGabalgrom in theBashgal Valley.
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 ofProto-Nuristani pre-tonic*a and*ā asa.
The inventory as described byRichard Strand.[2] In addition, there is stress.
The neutral articulatory posture, as in the reduced vowel/a/, 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.
One suffix/ti/ voices to[di] for most speakers.
The sequences/ʈɭ/,/ɖɭ/ are phonetically affricates.
Nasals voice a following obstruent.
Laminal consonants change a following/a/ from[ɨ] to[i].
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | iy | (ɨ⟨a⟩) | u |
| Mid | e | ə⟨a⟩ | o |
| Low | a⟨â⟩ | (ɔ) |
⟨a⟩ is[ː] after another vowel,[i] after a laminal consonant and after/ik,ek,iɡ,eɡ/. For some speakers, it is[u] after/uk,yk,uɡ,yɡ/. Otherwise it is[ə] or[ɨ].
| Person | Direct | Genitive | Oblique | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | sg. | õ,õċ | yĩ | yī̃ |
| pl. | yimó | yimṓ | ||
| 2nd | sg. | tü | tu | tū |
| pl. | šo | šō | ||
