Gawar-Bati language

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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.

[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 Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.

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 9698023151 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.

Khowar English Dictionary (by Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981) ISBN 0923891153 published in Pakistan, reprinted in 2006

External links

[Gawar-Bati, A Language of Afghanistan]

[Dardic Languages of Chitral]

[Nuristan: Hidden Land of the Hindu Kush]

[History of Chitral]

Indo-Iranian languages
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Dardic languages>Dardic	Dameli \| Domaaki \| Gawar-Bati \| Kalasha \| Kashmiri \| Khowar \| Kohistani \| Nangalami \| Pashayi \| Palula \| Shina \| Shumashti
Nuristani languages>Nuristani	Ashkun \| Kamviri \| Kati \| Prasuni \| Tregami \| Waigali

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