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Brownie

Brauy (Bragui, Brahui, Bragui) is the language of Bragui . Distributed in adjacent areas of Pakistan , Iran and Afghanistan . The number of Browey speakers is undetectable, as ethnic Bragui are in close contact with the Balochs , speak the Balochian language and often call themselves Balochis when interviewed. According to the most probable estimates, at the beginning of the XXI century. no less than 1.5-1.6 million people speak Pakistan , and 150-200 thousand people in Iran and Afghanistan . Presumably several hundred brahui live in Mary region [2] of Turkmenistan ; however, it is unclear how much they retained their language.

Brownie
Self nameبروہی, Bráhuí
CountriesPakistan , Iran , Afghanistan , Turkmenistan
RegionsBalochistan
Total number of speakers1.8 million
Status
Classification
CategoryLanguages ​​of Eurasia

Dravidian family

Northwest group
Writingarabic alphabet , latin
Language Codes
GOST 7.75–97sconce 117
ISO 639-1-
ISO 639-2-
ISO 639-3brh
WALS
Atlas of the World's Languages ​​in Danger
Ethnologue
IETF
Glottolog

Brownie is one of the Dravidian languages . Dialects, as far as one can judge from the available descriptions and texts, are poorly expressed.

Retains all the basic features of the grammatical structure of Dravidian languages. It has an agglutinatively- suffix structure of word forms. The nominal parts of speech are distinguished by 2 numbers and 11 cases. The grammatical gender is lost in both names and verbs. In the imperative mood, only the number is distinguished, in the remaining moods, the face also. Forms of time (always synthetic) - 5 in the indicative mood and 2 in the potential; in conditional mood, the times do not differ. Each personal form of the verb corresponds to a synthetic negative. The sentence construction is nominative. The word order “subject + object + predicate” prevails.

Browey's vocabulary is replete with borrowings from Iranian ( Balochi , Persian ), Arabic and Indo-Aryan ( Syriac , Sindhi , Urdu , Punjabi ) languages. But the numerals “one”, “two”, “three”, personal and demonstrative pronouns , formed from the foundations of the last circumstances of the word and the vast majority of verbs are of primordially Dravidian origin.

Content

  • 1 Writing
  • 2 notes
  • 3 Literature
  • 4 References

Writing

The Browi language for a long time did not have its own alphabet and used (from the second half of the 17th century) Urdu graphics. The first original work on Browi is the poem “Tohvat-ul-Ajaib” (“Gifts of Miracles”) by Malik Dada (published in the Kalatian Khanate in the second half of the 18th century). The printing tradition was interrupted and resumed only in the 1870s . In the city of Quetta since the 1970s. the “Browie Academy", which publishes folklore recordings, original works of poets and prose writers in Browi, works. There are periodicals on Browi, it is studied at the University of Balochistan in Quetta.

In the 2000s, an Arabic-based alphabet was developed for the Browis of Afghanistan: ا أ ء ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ر ز ل غ ش ص ض ط ل م م ن ں و ٶ ه ة ى ے [3] .

In 2008, a Browi alphabet based on the Latin alphabet was developed in Pakistan: b á p í sy ş vxez ź ģ f ú mnlgct ŧ r ŕ do đ hjkaiu ń ļ [4] .

Notes

  1. ↑ UNESCO Red Book of Languages
    <a href=" https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:Q925553 "> </a> <a href=" https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:P1999 "> </a> <a href = " https://wikidata.org/wiki/Track:P2355 "> </a>
  2. ↑ It was near the city of Mary (ancient Merv ) in Altyn-Depe that V. Masson found seals of the proto - Indian type that could belong to the oldest proto-Dravidian ethnic community (5 thousand - 4 century BC).
  3. ↑ Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan
  4. ↑ Brahui Language Board

Literature

  • Andronov M.S. - M .: Science (GRVL), 1971. - 152 p. - ( Languages ​​of the peoples of Asia and Africa ).
  • Bray DS The Brahui language. Pt 1: Introductions and Grammar. Calcutta, 1909 , Pts 2-3: The Brahui problem and Etymological vocabulary. Delhi, 1934 ;
  • Emeneau MB Phonetic observation on Brahui // Bulletin of the School if Oriental Studies. 1937 . Vol. 8/4;
  • Andronov M.S. M., 1971 ;
  • Kamil-al-Qadri SM All about Brahui // International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. 1972 . Vol. 1/1;
  • Rossi AV Iranian lexical elements in Brahui. Naples, 1979 ;
  • Andronov MS A grammar of the Brahui language in comparative treatment. München, 2001 ;
  • idem. Historico-comparative notes on the Dravidian heritage of Brahui // Indian Linguistics. 2002 . Vol. 63.
Dictionaries:
  • Elfenbein J. A Brahui supplementary vocabulary // Indo-Iranian Journal. 1983 . Vol. 25.

Links

  • Partial bibliography of scholarly works on Brahui
  • English to Brahui word list
  • Complete profile of the Brahui language, with citations to teaching materials
  • Ethnologue report on the Brahui language
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Braws&oldid=99728670


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