Mankiyali (Pakistan) – Language Snapshot
- Shakir Ullah
- Qandeel Hussain
- Uzma Anjum
Abstract
Mankiyali is a severely endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 500 people in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. It belongs to the Dardic group of Indo-Aryan and has only recently received an ISO 639-3 code (nlm). There is no established orthography or written literature. The speakers of Mankiyali are multilingual and can speak Hindko, Pashto, and Urdu. It is used in day-to-day conversations, community gatherings, festivals, and funeral ceremonies but it is not used as a medium of instruction at local schools. There is an ongoing language shift in the Mankiyali community. Speakers are migrating to the neighboring metropolitan cities and shifting to the major languages such as Hindko and Pashto. Mankiyali is in dire need of further research from a linguistic perspective. The authors are involved in the phonetic and phonological documentation of Mankiyali.
Keywords: Mankiyali, Endangered, Indo-Aryan language, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP, Pakistan
How to Cite:
Ullah, S., Hussain, Q. & Anjum, U., (2020) “Mankiyali (Pakistan) – Language Snapshot”, Language Documentation and Description 19, 138-143. doi: https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd70
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