Dameli
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Dameli is a language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Valley, in the Chitral District of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan.
The Domel Valley is about ten miles south of Drosh on the East Side of the Chitral River, on the road from the Mirkhani Fort to the pass of Arandu.
The main source of information on the Dameli Language is an article by Georg Morgenstierne published in 1942: Notes on Dameli: A Kafir-Dardic Language of the Chitral. A linguistic survey edited by Kendall Decker (1992) contains a chapter on Dameli. The language is classified as a Dardic Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.
Dameli is still the main language in the villages where it is spoken, and is regularly learned by children. Most of the men speak Pashto as a second language, and some also speak Khowar and Urdu but there are no signs of massive language change.
The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha-mun, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Gujar, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and Pashto. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian.
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: shemaal maghribi sarhadi soobe شمال مغربی سرحدی
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The Domel Valley is about ten miles south of Drosh on the East Side of the Chitral River, on the road from the Mirkhani Fort to the pass of Arandu.
The main source of information on the Dameli Language is an article by Georg Morgenstierne published in 1942: Notes on Dameli: A Kafir-Dardic Language of the Chitral. A linguistic survey edited by Kendall Decker (1992) contains a chapter on Dameli. The language is classified as a Dardic Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.
Dameli is still the main language in the villages where it is spoken, and is regularly learned by children. Most of the men speak Pashto as a second language, and some also speak Khowar and Urdu but there are no signs of massive language change.
The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha-mun, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Gujar, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and Pashto. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian.
Books
- Decker, Kendall D. (1992) Languages of Chitral ISBN 969-8023-15-1 http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=32850
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1926) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie C I-2. Oslo. ISBN 0-923891-09-9
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1942) Notes on Dameli. A Kafir-Dardic Language of Chitral. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap Vol. 12: 115 - 198.
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Dardic languages are a group of Indo-Iranian languages spoken in eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir which is divided between India and Pakistan.
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Pashto (پښتو, IPA: [pəʂ'to] also known as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto
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Khowar is classified as a Dardic language. It is spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighboring Gilgit,
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Khowar is classified as a Dardic language. It is spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighboring Gilgit,
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Urdu}}}
Writing system: Urdu alphabet (Nasta'liq script)
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Official language of: Pakistan ;
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Writing system: Urdu alphabet (Nasta'liq script)
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Official language of: Pakistan ;
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Town of Chitral
Motto: "With the help of God the success is not afar"
Coordinates:
Country Pakistan
Province NWFP
Established 1700?
Incorporated 1969
Government
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Motto: "With the help of God the success is not afar"
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ISO 639-2: ine
ISO 639-3: khw
Khowar is classified as a Dardic language. It is spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighboring Gilgit,
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Language codes
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ISO 639-2: ine
ISO 639-3: khw
Khowar is classified as a Dardic language. It is spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral in Northwest Pakistan, in Yasin Valley and Gupis in neighboring Gilgit,
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Kalash or Kalasha (also known as Kalasha-mun) is an Indo-European language in the Indo-Iranian branch, further classified as a Dardic language in the Chitral Group.
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Palula (in the literature sometimes referred to as Phalura), Ashreti, or Dangarikwar (the name used by Khowar speakers), is spoken by approximately 10,000 people in the valleys of Ashret and Biori, as well as in the village Puri (also Purigal) in the Shishi valley, and at least by
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Old: Sanskrit: Vedic Sanskrit - Classical Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni) Middle: Prakrit: Pāli - Maharashtri - Magadhi New:
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Nuristani languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian language family, spoken in Afghanistan and parts of modern Pakistan.
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The Yidgha language is a Pamir language spoken in the Upper Lutkuh Valley of Chitral, west of Garam Chishma in Pakistan.
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The Yidgha language is a Pamir language spoken in the Upper Lutkuh Valley of Chitral, west of Garam Chishma in Pakistan.
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Burushaski (Urdu: بروشسکی - burū́šaskī) is a language isolate spoken by some 87,000 (as of 2000) Burusho people in the Hunza, Nagar, Yasin, and parts of the Gilgit valleys in
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Writing system: Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
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Wakhi is an Iranian language in the subranch of Southeastern Iranian languages (see Pamir languages).
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Writing system: Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
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Wakhi is an Iranian language in the subranch of Southeastern Iranian languages (see Pamir languages).
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Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Kyrgyz tili, Кыргыз тили, قىرعىز ٴتىلى) is a Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of
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Pashto (پښتو, IPA: [pəʂ'to] also known as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto
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Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It consists of four language groups: the Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, and Dardic.
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