Pashai
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Afghanistan | |
speaker | 100,000 | |
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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.