Infobox Language name Dameli familycolor Indo European states Pakistan region Khyber Pakhtunkhwa speakers 5,000 fam2 Indo Iranian languages Indo Iranian fam3 Dardic languages Dardic fam4 Kunar languages Kunar iso3 dml notice Indic Dameli is a language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Valley, in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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 sociolinguistic survey written by Kendall Decker 1992 contains a chapter on Dameli. The language is classified as a Dardic languages 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 language Pashto as a second language, and some also speak Khowar language Khowar and Urdu but there are no signs of massive language change. The Norwegian Linguist http www.nb.no baser morgenstierne nirmali nirmali Imra Text sacrifice sacrifice29.html Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar language Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more ... , Dameli, Gawar Bati language Gawar Bati , Nuristani languages Nuristani , Yidgha , Burushaski language ... 1942 Notes on Dameli. A Kafir Dardic Language of Chitral. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap Vol ... language.asp?code dml Dameli, A Language of Pakistan http www.ling.su.se ASV forskning.html Dameli A Descriptive Grammar of Dameli swe icon http www.nb.no baser morgenstierne english index.html Georg ... of Chitral br Dameleg fr Dameli pnb ru fi Damelin kieli ta th ... more details
Image Language map.JPG right thumb 250px Languages spoken in Pakistan Chitral is the northernmost district in Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and is a former Princely State . Despite being in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chitral is not a Pashtun area. Chitral shares much of its history and culture with the neighboring territories of Gilgit Baltistan , Nuristan and Badakhshan . The major language of Chitral is Khowar , a Dardic langanuage known as Chitrali language. Accoording to the research of Rehmat Aziz Chitrali , Director Khowar Academy most of the minority languages spoken in Chitral are also Dardic including Kalasha , Gawarbati , Dameli , Madaklashti , Kirghizi and Phalula . Iranian languages Iranic languages spoken by immigrant groups in Chitral include Pashto , Persian people Persian , and Wakhi . An indigenous Iranic language spoken in Chitral is Yidgha . There are also migrants form Nuristan who speak several Nuristani dialects. Finally there is a large community if Gujjar herdmen who were originally nomadic, but have now settled permanently in parts of Lower Chitral and they speak the Indo Aryan languages Indo Aryan Gojri Language. Thus Chitral is considered to be one of the most lingusitically diverse regions in the world, but nearly all of these groups use Khowar as a lingua franca for inter ethnic communication, except for the southernmost part of the district where Pashto plays that role. Category Chitral District Category Languages of Chitral ... more details
Infobox Language name Gawar Bati familycolor Indo European states Afghanistan , Pakistan region Kunar Province speakers 10,000 fam2 Indo Iranian languages Indo Iranian fam3 Dardic languages Dardic fam4 Kunar languages Kunar iso3 gwt notice Indic Gawar Bati is known in Chitral as Aranduyiwar, because it is spoken in Village Arandu, which is the last village in the bottom of Chitral and is across the Kunar River from Berkot in Afghanistan . Chitral keeps a military base in Arandu to guard against an attack by Afghanistan . There are 9,000 speakers of Gawar Bati, but only 1,500 are in Pakistan . The rest are in Afghanistan . coord 35 19 38 N 71 35 05 E The Gawar Bati Language has not been given study by serious linguists, except that it is mentioned by George Morgenstierne 1926 and Kendall Decker 1992 . It is classified as a Dardic languages Dardic Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one. The Norwegian Linguist http www.nb.no baser morgenstierne nirmali nirmali Imra Text sacrifice sacrifice29.html Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar language Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha mun language Kalasha mun , Palula , Dameli language Dameli , Gawar Bati, Nuristani languages Nuristani , Yidgha , Burushaski language Burushaski , Gujjar Gujar , Wakhi language Wakhi , Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz , Persian language Persian and Pashto language Pashto . Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian language 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. Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning , Serie C I 2. Oslo. ISBN 0 923891 ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Dardistan Perso Arabic script Perso Arabic nastaliq is a term coined by Gottlieb William Leitner for the northern Pakistan , and Kashmir in India and parts of north eastern Afghanistan . It is inhabited by Dard people Dards speaking Dardic languages . Dardist n, region inhabited by the so called Dard peoples in the north of Pakistan and northern Kashmir. It includes Chitr l, the upper reaches of the Panjkora River, the Kohist n highland of Sw t, and the upper portions of the Gilgit Agency. Mentioned by the classical historians Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Herodotus, the Dards Daradae, Daradrae, or Derdae are said to be people of Aryan origin who ascended the Indus Valley from the Punjab plains, reaching as far north as Chitr l. They were converted to Isl m in the 14th century and speak three distinct dialects of Gilgit, Khowari, Burushask , and Shina, employing the Persian script in writing. Historical Origin Herodotus III. 102 105 is the first author who refers to the country of Dards, placing it between Kashmir and Afghanistan. It also has reference in Mahabharata where it mentions the tribute of the ant gold pipilika brought by the nations of the north to one of the Pandu sons, king Yudhisthira . The Dards are also the Darada of the Sanskrit writers. The Darada and Himavanta were the regions to which Gautama Buddha Buddha sent his missionaries. Dardic languages Dameli language Domaaki language Gawar Bati language Kalami language Kalasha language Kashmiri language Khowar language Kohistani language Ningalami language Pashayi language Phalura language Shina language Shumashti language Coord missing Pakistan Category Regions of Pakistan Category Regions of India Category Regions of Afghanistan Category Dardic peoples ca Dardistan de Dardistan es Dardistan ru simple Dardistan ... more details
here. These include Kalasha mun language Kalasha mun , Palula language Palula , Dameli language Dameli , Gawar Bati language Gawar Bati , Nuristani languages Nuristani , Yidgha , Burushaski language ... more details
than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha mondr , Palula language Palula , Dameli language Dameli , Gawar Bati language Gawar Bati , Nuristani languages Nuristani , Yidgha language ... more details
ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha mun language Kalasha mun , Palula, Dameli language Dameli , Gawar Bati language Gawar Bati , Nuristani languages Nuristani , Yidgha , Burushaski ... more details
Pashai languages Pashayi language Pashayi Kunar languages Gawar Bati language Gawar Bati , Dameli language Dameli , Shumashti language Shumashti and Nangalami language Nangalami includes Grangali ... more details
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, Khowar language Chitrali , Dameli , Dehwari , Dhatki language Dhatki , Domaaki language Domaaki ... Khowar language Chitrali col2 Dari Eastern Persian Dari Dameli language Dameli Dogri language Dogri ... more details
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