Pashayi
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pashayi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.