Talk:Nuristani languages

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I don't think there is that much more than can be said. Nuristan is essentially the end of the world. Neither the Pakistanis, nor the British before them, nor the Afgans, pre-during-or post Taliban have ever tried to impose central control over the region.

In terms of the Kurgan hypothesis, this part of the world can be interpreted as the last surviving outpost of IE warrior culture. --FourthAve 03:14, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

the Pamir "see also" is because these are the languages spoken "next door". It would be nice to have a map of the distribution of all these Indo-Iranian langauges. dab (ᛏ) 19:57, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Like this one? Of course, we'd have to ask Richard Strand if we can use it on Wikipedia. Florian Blaschke 21:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needs to be reworked for standard classification

The standard classification of the Nuristani group is still:

Indo-European

Indo-Iranian

Indo-Aryan (aka Indic)

Northwest Group

Nuristani

The proposal for separation as an independent branch of Indo-Iranian should be discussed as new thinking not yet accepted by consensus. The righthand sidebar should be updated with the standard classification.

See Ethnologue.org

Compare my complete reworking of the Dardic languages article.

Sorry I don't have time to do this one...