Pashayi language
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| Pashayi | ||||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan | |||
| Total speakers: | 216,842 (Ethnologue) | |||
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Dardic Pashayi |
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| Official language in: | none | |||
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |||
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | none | |||
| ISO 639-3: | variously: aee – Northeastern glh – Northwestern psi – Southeastern psh – Southwestern |
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Pashayi - also known as Pashai - is a language (or a group of languages) spoken in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
It was spoken by over 216,842 people who are predominantly Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% for people who have it as a second language.
There are four main varieties, which are all mutually unintelligible: the Northeastern, the Northwestern, the Southeastern and the Southwestern.
[edit] References
- Pashayi. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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