The following tables include the Torwali consonant and vowel phonemes. Click any of the sounds in the tables to hear audio samples. (Note: There may be a delay between clicking the sound and hearing it, depending on the speed of your Internet connection.) Special thanks to Mr. Jahangir Khan, a mother-tongue speaker of Torwali from Behrain, Swat, for providing these recording samples.
Except for the mid central vowel, all other oral vowels have nasalized counterparts. Following is a sampling of some Torwali words. In the future, I hope to add audio recordings of these words too.
For more information regarding the phonological or grammatical structures of Torwali, see Lunsford, Wayne. 2001. An overview of linguistic structures in Torwali, a language of Northern Pakistan. Arlington: University of Texas. MA thesis. read more
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