Pashayi languages
| Pashayi | |
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| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Pashayi people |
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Native speakers
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unknown (400,000 cited 2000–2011)[1] |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: aee – Northeastern glh – Northwestern psi – Southeastern psh – Southwestern |
| Glottolog | pash1270[2] |
| Linguasphere | 59-AAA-a |
Pashayi or Pashai (sometimes referred to colloquially in neighbouring languages as "Shari") is a group of languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. It belongs to the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan languages.[3] Most speakers are bilingual in Pashto with a literacy rate of about 25%, with the Pashayi languages having no written form prior to 2003.[4] There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity:[1]
- Northeastern: Aret, Chalas (Chilas), Kandak, Kurangal, Kurdar dialects
- Northwestern: Alasai, Bolaghain, Gulbahar, Kohnadeh, Laurowan, Najil, Nangarach, Pachagan, Pandau, Parazhghan, Pashagar, Sanjan, Shamakot, Shutul, Uzbin, Wadau dialects
- Southeastern: Damench, Laghmani, Sum, and Upper and Lower Darra-i-Nur dialects
- Southwestern: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau dialects
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.[5]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Northeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Northwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Lehr, Rachel. 2014. A descriptive grammar of Pashai: The language and speech of a community of Darrai Nur. Phd dissertation, University of Chicago.
