Parkari Koli language
Indo-Aryan language of Pakistan
The Parkari Koli language (sometimes called just Parkari) is an Indo-Aryan language mainly spoken in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is spoken in the southeast tip bordering India, in the Tharparkar District, Nagarparkar. Most of the lower Thar Desert, west as far as Indus River, bordered north and west by Hyderabad, to south and west of Badin.
Lexical similarity
77%–83% with Marwari, 83% with Wadiyara Koli.
Orthography
The orthography was standardized in 1983-84 and used from 1985 onward. It is based on the Sindhi alphabet which is itself based on modifications done on Persian alphabet, with three additional letters:
ۮ, representing a voiced dental implosive /ɗ/
ۯ, representing a retroflex lateral approximant /ɭ/
ۿ, representing a voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/.
These letters all use an inverted V (like the circumflex) as the diacritical mark. The decision to introduce this symbole was so that these letters would stand out more clearly in Parkari language, as Sindhi already makes frequent use of dots, including letters having as many as 4. The below table shows the Parkari alphabet. These new letters are shaded in blue.
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