Pashayi

Also known as Pashai

language or language group spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Key facts

Native to: Afghanistan
Ethnicity: Pashayi
Native speakers: (400,000 cited 2000–2011)
Language family: Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Dardic Pashayi
Writing system: Arabic script ( Nastaliq )
Iso 639 3: Variously:, aee – Northeastern, glh – Northwestern, psi – Southeastern, psh – Southwestern
Glottolog: pash1270
Linguasphere: 59-AAA-a

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Pashayi (or Pashai) is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by the Pashayi people in parts of the Kapisa, Laghman, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar, and Kabul (Surobi) provinces in northeastern Afghanistan.

The Pashayi languages had no known written form prior to 2003. There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity: