Riasiti dialect - Wikipedia
Riasti, Bhawalpuri or Choolistani is a dialect spoken throughout a widespread area in Pakistani Punjab on the banks of river Sutlej and Choolistan desert.
Ethology
Its name is derived from Riast (State) of Bahawalpur.
Classification
It had been historically classified as dialect of Punjabi. In 1920’s Garrison in his Linguist Survey of India classified Riasti (Bahawalpuri) in to Southern cluster of Lahnda (Western Punjabi) but recently Southern Lahnda has been standardized as a separate language Siraiki. The debate over Saraiki as a separate language or dialect of Punjabi is a issue which could not be resolved to date because Saraiki is also considered as a dialect of Main stream Punjabi because Saraiki is Mutually intangible, Morphologicaly and Syntactically similar with Standard Punjabi and is in fact dialect of Punjabi agreed by majority of local linguists such as Dulai, K Narinder, Gill, Harjeet Singh Gill, A Henry. Gleason (Jr), Koul, N Omkar, Siya Madhu Bala, Afzal Ahmed Cheema, Aamir Malik, Amar Nath [1] [2] [3] [4] as well as modern linguistics publications such as US National advisory Committee based The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) along with modern linguistics such as Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, Cardona and Nataliia Ivanovna Tolstaia classifing Saraiki as a dialect of Punjabi. [5] [6] [7] [8].
Today Riasti is clearly a distinct Hybrid dialect from Multani (Saraiki), because not only it always had slight Rajhastani influence but also due to the fact that the State of Bahwalpur (Now Bahawalpur division) is in a state of demo graphical changes as the process of Land cultivation has brought in Malwi & Majhi Standard Punjabi speakers in majority in 9 (Tehsils Sadiqabad,Bahawalnagar,Hasilpur, Yazman, Khairpur Tamiwali ,Chishtian,Fort Abbas,Haroonabad,Minchinabad) out of Total 14 Tehsils of Bahwalpur division. This dialect is becoming a more hybrid in nature over the time as gap between Majhi and Riasti closing down. This all has resulted in rejection by Bahawalpuris of inclusion in Proposed Saraiki Province. [9]
Sub-dialects of Riasti
- Bhawalpuri
- Choolistani
Dialect speaking areas
These 3 distracts speak this dialect cluster
Differences in Punjabi Dialects Standard (Majhi), and Southern (Riasti)
| English | Majhi or Standard Punjabi. | Riasti.
(Southern parts of Punjab Province) |
|---|---|---|
| What, This | Ki, Ae | Kya, ee |
| How much, This much, That much | Kinna, Inna, Unna | Kitna, Itnna, Utnna |
| My, Your, His, Our, Yours, Their, Of | Mayre, Tayra, Oda, Saada, Tuhada, Onaanda, Da | Maydha, Taydha, Usda, Asaadha, Tuhada, Onaanda, Da |
| Me, To you , Him, To it, Us, To you, Them, To | Maynoo, Taynoo, Onoo, Aynoo, Saanoo, Tuhaanoo, Onaannoo, Noo | Maykhoo, Taykhoo, Uskhoo, iskhoo, asaakhoo, Tusaakhoo, Uneenkooo, khoo |
| I am, You are, He is, We are, You are, They are (going) | Mae aan, Tu ayn, O ay, Assee aan, Tussi O, O nay (Jaa nda/day (plu) ) | Mae haan, Tu hayn, Oo hay, Asaan haan, Tussaan ho, Oo han (Ve aynada/ay (plu) pya/ay ) |
| I was, You were, He was, We were, You were, They were | Mae saan, Tu saen, O si, Assee saan, Tussi so, O sn | Mae haan/m, Tu havaen, Oo hi/aa, Assaan hassay, Tussaan havaen, Oo han/hin |
| I shall take, You will take, He will take, We shall take, You will take, They will take | Mae lae aan ga, Tu lae ayn ga, O lae i ga, Assee lae aan gay, Tussi lae o gay, O lae aan gay | Mae ghin ays aan, Tu ghin ays ayn, Oo ghin ays i, Assaan ghin ays aan, Tussaan ghin ays o, Oo ghinays n |
| Go, Come, Happen, Take away, See | Ja, Aa, Ho, Le Ja, Vekh | Vnj/Ja, Aa, Thee, Ghinivnj, Daykh/Vek |
| Boy, Girl , Women, Man | Munda, Kuri, Znaani, Aadmi | Chohr, Chohir, Aurat, Mard |
| From, A lot | Toon, Bot | Toon, Baon |
| One, Two, Nine, Ten | Aek, Do, No, Das | Hikk, Doo, Naa/No, Daah/Das |
See also
References
- ^ Dulai, Narinder K. 1989. A Pedagogical Grammar of Punjabi. Patiala: Indian Institute of Language Studies.
- ^ Gill, Harjeet Singh Gill and Henry A. Gleason, Jr: A Reference Grammar of Punjabi: Patiala University Press
- ^ Koul, Omkar N. and Madhu Bala :Punjabi Language and Linguistics: An Annotated Bibliography: New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies
- ^ Malik, Amar Nath, Afzal Ahmed Cheema : 1995 : The Phonology and Morphology of Panjabi: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
- ^ http://books.google.fr/books?id=C9MPCd6mO6sC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=95&menu=004
- ^ Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow:2012:Punjabi Dialects:Beta script publishing:6134873527, 9786134873529
- ^ http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=BmA9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ^ http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=193357