Hindko and Gujari. c - SIL International

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Calvin R. Rensch
Word lists were collected in this way from the following
localities (with the abbreviation for each locality shown to the
right):
Balakot (Mansehra Dist.) BA
Sherpur (Mansehra Dist.) SH
Mansehra City MA
Singo Di Garhi (Abbottabad Dist.) SI
Jammun (near Ghazi) (Abbottabad Dist.) JA
Attock City AT
Talagang (Attock Dist.) TA
Kohat City KO
Wad Pagga (Peshawar Dist.) WA
Pakha Gholam (Peshawar Dist.) PA
Peshawar City PE
Each word list was compared with all the others pair by pair
in order to determine the extent to which the corresponding
Hindko lexical items are similar. In this procedure no attempt is
made to identify true cognates based on consistent sound
correspondences. Rather, the items are compared only for
obvious phonetic similarity. (See appendix A.1 for a summary of
this procedure.)
After all pairs of items on two word lists have been
determined to be phonetically similar or not according to the
criteria, the percentage of similar items is calculated. This
procedure is repeated for each pair of dialects.
The percentage of phonetically similar lexical items for each
pair of Hindko dialects compared is displayed in figure (4.1).