Ormuri

Ormuri
Baraki, Ormur, Ormui, Bargista
اورموړی[1]
Native to	Pakistan, Afghanistan
Region	South Waziristan and Logar
Native speakers	6,000 (2004)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Ormuri–Parachi Ormuri
Writing system	Perso-Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	oru
Glottolog	ormu1247
ELP	Ormuri

Ormuri (Pashto: اورموړی ژبه; Persian: زبان ارموری; literally, "Ormuri language") also known as Baraki, Ormur, Ormui or Bargista is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Southeast Afghanistan and Waziristan. It is primarily spoken by the Burki people in the town of Kaniguram in South Waziristan and Logar, Afghanistan. The language belongs to the Eastern-Iranian language group. The extremely small number of speakers makes Ormuri an endangered language that is considered to be in a "threatened" state.

Ormuri is notable for its unusual sound inventory, which includes a voiceless alveolar trill that does not exist in the surrounding Pashto. Ormuri also has voiceless and voiced alveolo-palatal fricatives (the voiceless being contrastive with the more common voiceless palato-alveolar fricative), which also exist in the Waziristani dialect of Pashto, but could have been adopted from Ormuri due to its close proximity.^[3]