Parachi

Parachi
Spoken in	Afghanistan
speaker	3500 (2009) [1]
Linguistic classification	Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Iranian languages Eastern Iranian languages ​​(?) Ormuri-Parachi Parachi
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639-3	prc [2]

Parachi is an Iranian language spoken by around 600 to 3500 people of the Parachi ethnic group in eastern Afghanistan, mainly in the Nijrab district, northeast of Kabul .

Parachi is closely related to Ormuri. Parachi is usually classified as a member of the southeastern group of Eastern Iranian languages, but Ethnologue classifies it as one of the northwestern Iranian languages.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glottolog 4.2.1 - Parachi. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Parachi. In: MultiTree. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Parachi. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .