Phonological Differences
Eastern Iranian languages have wide-spread sound changes, e.g. č > c, d > ð > l, and b > v/w, as shown in the table below.
| Avestan | Pashto | Munji | Sanglechi | Wakhi | Shughni | Parachi | Ormuri | Yaghnobi | Ossetic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aēva- "one" |
yaw | yu | vak | yi | yiw | žu | sō | ī | iu |
| čaθwārō "four" |
calṓr | čfūr | cəfúr | cībɨr | cavṓr | čōr | cār | tafór | cippar |
| hapta "seven" |
ōwə | ōvda | ōvδ | ɨb | ūvd | hōt | wō | avd | avd |
| dasa "ten" |
las | los / dā1 | dos | δas | δis | dōs | das | das | dæs |
| gav- "cow" |
γwā | γṓw | uγūi | γīw | žōw | gū | gioe | γov | x”ug |
| brātar- "brother" |
wrōr | vəróy | vrūδ | vīrīt | virṓd | byā | marzā2 | virūt | ærvad |
Another sound change found in the Shughni–Yazgulyam branch and Pashto dialects is ṣ̌ > x̌ > x, e.g. "meat" is ɡuṣ̌t in Wakhi but changes to guxt in Shughni, and Southern Pashto γwaṣ̌a ("meat") changes to γwax̌a in Central Pashto and γwaxa in Northern Pashto.
The neighboring Indo-Aryan languages have exerted a pervasive external influence on Eastern Iranian, as it is evident in the development in the retroflex consonants (in Pashto, Wakhi, Sanglechi, Khotanese, etc.) and aspirates (in Khotanese, Parachi and Ormuri).
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