Lasi dialect (Sindhi)

{{Short description|Dialect of Sindhi spoken in Pakistan}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Lasi

| nativename = {{lang|sd-Aran|لاسي}}

| image = لاسي.svg

| states = Pakistan

| region = Balochistan (Las Bela)

| ethnicity = Sindhi Lasi

| speakers = {{sigfig|14,800|2}}

| date = 2020

| ref = e27

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Indo-Aryan

| fam4 = Northwestern

| fam5 = Sindhic

| fam6 = Jadgali–Lasi

| script = Arabic script (Naskh, Nastaliq){{cite web | url=https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=wrSys_detail&key=lss-Arab | title=ScriptSource - Lasi written with Arabic script, Naskh variant }}

| iso3 = lss

| glotto = lasi1242

}}

Lasi, or Lassi, also called Kohistani ({{Langx|sd|لاسي}}) is a dialect of the Sindhi language spoken on the western frontier of Sindh and Balochistan in Pakistan.{{cite book |title=Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics ; Volume 1 |date=2017 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |location=Berlin Boston |isbn=9783110393248 |page=433 |quote=The five major dialects of Sindhi are Vicholi, Lari, Lasi, Thari, and Kachhi. Four dialects are spoken within the borders of Sindh itself. Siraiki, in Upper Sindh, is not to be confused with the Punjabi language of the same name. Vicholi, considered the standard dialect, is spoken in central Sindh, while Lari is the dialect in southern Sindh. Lasi is spoken on the western frontier of Sindh and in Balochistan. The Sindhi spoken in the Thar desert of the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan is called Thari. In Gujarat, Kachhi is spoken along the Rann of Kutch and in the Kathiawar peninsula.}}{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Peter |title=One thousand languages: living, endangered, and lost |date=2008 |publisher=University of California press |location=Berkeley (Calif.) |isbn=9780520255609 |page=126 |quote=Sindhi has six major dialects: Siraiki (Seraiki), Vicholi, Lari, Lasi, Thari (Thareli) and Katchhi (Kachchhi). However, other sources consider at least Katchhi to be a separate language. In addition, the name Siraiki is used to describe a different language variety, sometimes listed as a separate language and sometimes as a dialect of Punjabi.}}{{Cite web |title=Linguistic Survey of India |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/lsi/lsi.php?volume=8-1&pages=600#page/24/mode/1up | page= 9 | quote= two other dialects, Lasi and Kachchhi, have to be added to the list|access-date=2023-06-15 |website=dsal.uchicago.edu}} It is spoken by the Sindhi Lasi people of Lasbela, Hub and Gwadar in Balochistan, and Lasi is also spoken in the Kohistan region of Karachi, Thatta and Jamshoro districts of Sindh.{{cite encyclopedia| title = Encyclopedia Iranica| chapter = BALUCHISTAN i. Geography, History and Ethnography (cont.)| chapter-url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/baluchistan-ia| year = 2010}}