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Masidwola (Pashto: ماسیدوله, meaning "of the Mehsuds"), Mehsudi, or Maseedwola is a dialect of Waziristani.

Phonology

Rozi Khan Burki claims that in Waziristani is that the phonemes and , along with their voiced counterparts, and , have merged into the phonemes and , both of which also exist in the nearby Ormuri or Warmuri language of Burkis of Kaniguram, South Waziristan. But Pashto linguists such as Josef Elfenbein, Anna Boyle or Yousaf Khan Jazab have not noted this in Waziri Phonology.

See also

• Waneci

Notes

• Linguist List
• Lorimer, John Gordon (1902). Grammar and Vocabulary of Waziri Pashto.

References

1. "Dying Languages: Special Focus on Ormuri". Pakistan Journal of Public Administration. 6. No. 2. December 2001. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012.
2. Elfenbein, Josef (1997), "Pashto Phonology", Phonologies of Asia and Africa 2, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, pp. 740–749, retrieved 2021-03-16
3. David, Anne Boyle (2014). Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 37–40. ISBN 978-1-61451-303-2.
4. Khan Jazab, Yousaf (2017). An Ethno-linguisitic Study of the Karlani Varieities of Pashto. Pashto Academy, University of Peshawar. pp. 69–70.

• Pashto dialects
• Languages of Afghanistan
• Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Waziristan