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Shina
Spoken in	Pakistan  India
Region	Northern Areas, Pakistan
Native speakers	(21,000 in India (2006) cited 1981)16
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Dardic Shina languages Shina
Writing system	Arabic Script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	scl
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Shina (also known as Tshina) is a Dardic language spoken by a plurality of people in Gilgit–Baltistan of Pakistan and Dras in Ladakh of Indian-Administered Kashmir. The valleys in which it is spoken include Astore, Chilas, Dareil, Tangeer, Gilgit, Ghizer, and a few parts of Baltistan and Kohistan. It is also spoken in Gurez, Drass, Kargil, Karkit Badgam and Ladakh valleys.^{[citation needed]} There were 321,000 speakers of Gilgiti Shina as of 1981, and an estimated total of speakers of all dialects of 550,000. Many Shina speakers are also found in Pakistan's major urban centres of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Abbottabad, Hyderabad and Karachi.

Dialects include Gilgiti Shina, Gilityaa, and Kharochya (the main dialect),

• Astori Shina, Asturajaa,
• Dashkinii, Bounzhey, Shina,
• Chilasii, Darelaye Shina,
• Shinakii, Shina,
• Gulapoorii Shina,
• Brokskat (of Baltistan and Ladakh),
• Domaaki,
• Kohistani Shina,
• Palula,
• Savi, and
• Ushojo.^[1]

Phonology [link]

Vowels [link]

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Consonants [link]

Tone [link]

Tshina has two contrasting tones, level and rising.

Grammar [link]

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Common words and phrases [link]

Days of the week [link]

• Gileet: Gilgit
• Ala => Hey
• Thay nom jayk han? What is your name.
• May nom Peter han: My name is Peter.
• Jayk haal hay'n: How are you? (Yowk haal heen? >>astori dialect<<)
• Mas tutt khosh thamus(M)/thamis(F): I love(like) you
• Kontay bujano(M)/ bujani(F)? Where are you going?
• Tus jayk thayno(M)/ thayni(F)? What are you doing?
• Ash bala jayk thayno(M)/ thayni(F)? What are you doing nowadays?
• Tu kon hano(M)/ hani(F)? Where are you?
• Sadpara kon hin: Where is Sadpara?
• Kon?: Where?
• Aan: here
• Adaan (aatay): over here
• Aal (wah): there
• Paar Aal (Paar wah <<Shinakki>>): over there
• Khiri beyy: sit down
• Weyy pi: drink water
• Tiki kha: eat food
• Peter inn wa: Peter come here.
• Lowko: quick
• Ma boju mus: I'm going.
• Baba: father
• Aaji: mother
• Sah: sister
• Kaáka/Kaká): brother (also "Zraah" ... the beginning is a mix of the sounds "J" and "Z", and then an "R")
• Hunn theh: pick up
• Angai: sky
• Birdii: Land
• Attay: bring (it)
• Shaalbaal: children
• Mishti dish kon hin? What is the best place around?
• Pheepi: Aunt (father's sister)
• Tu kontay bujano(M)/ bujani(F)? Where are you going?
• Bilayn:Medicines
• Daado: grand father
• Daddi: grand mother
• Maamo: uncle
• Mulai: girl
• Baal: boy

>>replace "o" with "i" to turn an adjective feminine <<

• Bado(i): big
• Chuno(i): small
• Thulo(i): fat
• Ashaato(i): weak
• Dango(i): tall (also "Zrigo(i)"...this is more commonly used)
• Khutto(i): short
• Dewano (i): crazy
• Mishto(i): good (the "sh" sound has a bit of an "r" in it...like in Shina)

See also [link]

• North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
• Northern Areas of Pakistan
• Shin of Hindukush

References [link]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh John Biddulph", Sang e meel Publications, p 93

• Calvin R. Rensch, Sandra J. Decker, Daniel G. Hallberg (1992). Languages of Kohistan (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 1). National Institute of Pakistani Studies, 263 pp. ISBN 969-8023-11-9.
• Backstrom, Peter C. Languages of Northern Areas (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2), 1992. 417 pp. ISBN 969-8023-12-

• Zia, Muhammad Amin, Researcher Linguist, from Gilgit–Baltistan https://books.google.com/books?id=cOczIYoUKvwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Shina Grammar 1986 by Muhammad Amin Zia, first ever Shina grammar.

• Shina Lughat "Shina Dictionary" which is again first venture of its kind. It has 15000 words, and deals with phonatics of shina languahe as well

External links [link]

• Ethnologue Report for Shina
• 1992 Sociolinguistic Survey of Shina
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Shina Grammar written by one of the great linguist researchers Muhammad Amin Zia,is the first Shina Grammer of its kind. It was the first ever grammar written in Shina language in the history. Muhammad Amin Zia is a great writer, Poet and a researcher on the Linguistics. His recent book Shina-Texte aus Gilgit(Nord-Pakistan): Sprichwörter und Materialien zum Volksglauben, gesammelt von Mohammad Amin Zia is an international endeavor. This book is a connection between German and Shina Languages. It translates German to shina and Shina to german."Shina Lughat" the first Shina dictionary is also another contribution of professor Muhammad Amin Zia.