Pashayi language
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Pashayi - also known as Pashai - is a language (or a group of languages) spoken in parts of southwestern Afghanistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
It was spoken by over 216,842 people who are predominantly Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% for people who have it as a second language.
There are four main varieties, which are all mutually unintelligible: the Northeastern, the Northwestern, the Southeastern and the Southwestern.
References
- Pashayi. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. [Online version].
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