Phoneme /q/ in Kohistani Shina

[Ruth Laila Schmidt]

Dear members of the list,

Can anyone suggest where to look for sources for the following vocabulary
items which contain the phoneme /q/ in Kohistani Shina?

'thooNqar, a species of frog (falling tone on the long vowel)
qur'luu, a children's game  (no data for tones)
quuNj, 'stack of firewood' (falling tone on the vowel)
ba'Raq, 'shining'
pa'Raq, 'sudden laughter'

My data includes many loanwords with /q/ (originally from Arabic) and
indigenous words with /q/. The two that are definitely of IA origin are:

qaa, 'crow' (falling tone on the vowel)
ma'noq, 'frog'

I am hoping to assign the five mystery items to one category or another.

With thanks, and best holiday wishes,

Ruth Schmidt


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Ruth Laila Schmidt
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University of Oslo
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