Pashayi language

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Pashayi

Spoken in: Afghanistan

Total speakers: 216,842 (Ethnologue)

Language family: Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Dardic
Pashayi

Official status

Official language of: none

Regulated by: no official regulation

Language codes

ISO 639-1: none

ISO 639-2: none

ISO/FDIS 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 southwestern 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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