Badeshi
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Badeshi is an unclassified Indo-Iranian language spoken in northern Pakistan. The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018, the BBC found three men who could still speak the language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Badeshi
- Language.speakers
- 3
- Language.states
- Pakistan
- Language.region
- Bishigram Valley, Chail
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam3
- (unclassified)
- Language.script
- Arabic script, words also transcribed in Latin script
- Language.iso3
- bdz
- Language.glotto
- bade1240
- Language.glottorefname
- Badeshi
- Language.image
- File:Badeshi in Nastaliq.svg
- Language.imagecaption
- Badeshi written in Nastaliq
- Language.ethnicity
- Badeshi people
- Language.date
- 2018
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3
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Badeshi is an unclassified Indo-Iranian language spoken in northern Pakistan. The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018, the BBC found three men who could still speak the language.
Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist connected to the Forum for Language Initiative, has worked on this language. But as a result of his research during two years, he collected only about one hundred words. In July 2007, he visited the Bishigram Valley again and spent some days with the people there. There are efforts to retain a record of the language by linguist Zubair Torwali among others. Torwali has posited that it may be related to Yidgha or Wakhi.