Pashayi languages
| Pashayi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Pashayi people |
Native speakers | 400,000 (2000–2011)[1] |
| 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, Korangal, 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 Darai Nur dialects
- Southwestern: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau dialects
A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.[5]
References
- 1 2 Northeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Northwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southeastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pashayi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 440.
- ↑ Yun, Ju-Hong (2003). "Pashai Language Development Project: Promoting Pashai language, literacy and community development" (PDF).
- ↑ Lehr, Rachel. 2014. A descriptive grammar of Pashai: The language and speech of a community of Darrai Nur. Phd dissertation, University of Chicago.
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