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Lasi dialect (Sindhi)
| Lasi | |
|---|---|
| لاسي | |
 | |
| Native to | Pakistan |
| Region | Balochistan (Las Bela) |
| Ethnicity | Lasi |
Indo-European
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| Arabic script (Naskh, Nastaliq)[1] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lss |
| Glottolog | lasi1242 |
Lasi, or Lassi, (لاسي) is a dialect of Sindhi language[2] in Pakistan. It is spoken by the Lasi people of Lasbela, Hub and Gwadar in Balochistan, Lasi is also spoken in the Karachi and Thatta districts of Sindh.[3]
Loanwords[edit]
Lasi is known to be using loanwords from other languages, primarily Persian as well as Balochi.[4] More recently, many English and Urdu words have entered the language.
Orthography[edit]
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 romanise the language.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "ScriptSource - Lasi written with Arabic script, Naskh variant".
- ↑ "Linguistic Survey of India". dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ↑ "BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography (cont.)". Encyclopedia Iranica. 2010.
- ↑ Veesar, Zahid Ali; Aliani, Asadullah; Roonjho, Zafrullah (2020). "SUBSTITUTION OF IMPLOSIVES WITH ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN LASI".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Aliani, Asad Ullah; Ali, Zahid; Khan, Sami Ullah (2022). "English Loanwords Adaptation and Substitution Process in Lasi". University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature.