Pashai

Pashai
Spoken in	Afghanistan
speaker	100,000
Linguistic ; classification	Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages Indo-Aryan languages Dardian languages Kunar - subgroup Pashai ;
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	???

Pashai is a language spoken in Afghanistan . It belongs to the group of Dardic languages within the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family .

Pashai is spoken in several valleys north of the Kabul River and is divided into a number of mutually incomprehensible dialects. The number of speakers is estimated at around 100,000.

Individual evidence

↑ Colin P. Masica: The Indo-Aryan Languages. (= Cambridge language surveys ) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 0-5212-3420-4 , p. 440.

[1] Colin P. Masica: The Indo-Aryan Languages. (= Cambridge language surveys ) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 0-5212-3420-4 , p. 440.