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{{Short description|Dialect of Sindhi spoken in Pakistan}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Lasi
| nativename = {{lang|sd-Aran|لاسي}}
| image = لاسي.svg
| states = [[Pakistan]]
| region = [[Balochistan]] ([[Lasbela (district)|Las Bela]])
| ethnicity = [[Lasi people|Lasi]]
| speakers =
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam4 = Northwestern
| fam5 = [[Sindhi languages]]
| script = [[Arabic script]] ([[Naskh (script)|Naskh]], [[Nastaliq]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=wrSys_detail&key=lss-Arab | title=ScriptSource - Lasi written with Arabic script, Naskh variant }}</ref>
| iso3 = lss
| glotto = lasi1242
}}

'''Lasi''', or '''Lassi''', ({{lang|lss-Aran|لاسي}}) is a dialect of [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] language<ref>{{Cite web |title=Linguistic Survey of India |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=8-1&pages=600#page/172/mode/1up |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=dsal.uchicago.edu}}</ref> in [[Pakistan]]. It is spoken by the [[Lasi people]] of [[Lasbela District|Lasbela]], [[Hub District|Hub]] and [[Gwadar District|Gwadar]] in [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], Lasi is also spoken in the [[Karachi Division|Karachi]] and [[Thatta District|Thatta]] districts of Sindh.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| title = Encyclopedia Iranica| chapter = BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography (cont.)| chapter-url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/baluchistan-ia| year = 2010}}</ref>

== Loanwords ==
Lasi is known to be using loanwords from other languages, primarily [[Persian language|Persian]] as well as [[Balochi language|Balochi]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Veesar |first1=Zahid Ali |last2=Aliani |first2=Asadullah |last3=Roonjho |first3=Zafrullah |title=SUBSTITUTION OF IMPLOSIVES WITH ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN LASI |date=2020 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360206034}}</ref> More recently, many [[English language|English]] and [[Urdu]] words have entered the language.

== Orthography ==
Lasi uses the same orthography as Sindhi except an extra letter, [[ۏ]], which has been added to the [[Balochi Standard Alphabet]]. Many educated Lasi speakers use the [[Latin alphabet]] in an effort to [[Romanisation|romanise]] the language.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aliani |first1=Asad Ullah |last2=Ali |first2=Zahid |last3=Khan |first3=Sami Ullah |title=English Loanwords Adaptation and Substitution Process in Lasi |journal=University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature |date=2022}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Languages of Balochistan, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Languages of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Sindhi language]]
[[Category:Dialects of Sindhi]]
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