Vasi-vari language
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| Vasi-vari | ||||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan | |||
| Region: | Prasun Valley | |||
| Total speakers: | 1,000 (2000) | |||
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Vasi-vari |
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| Official status | ||||
| Official language in: | none | |||
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |||
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | none | |||
| ISO 639-3: | prn | |||
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Vasi-vari is a language spoken by the Vasi in a few villages in the Prasun Valley in Afghanistan. The most used alternative names are Prasuni or Prasun, which derive from Pashto.
Vasi-vari belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
Its speakers have been estimated at 1,000 (2000) and are largely 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.
Vasi-vari is the most isolated of the Nuristani languages.
[edit] References
- The Vâsi. Retrieved July 02, 2006, from Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush [1].
- Prasuni. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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