Everything about The Dardic Languages totally explained
The
Dardic languages are a group of
Indo-Iranian languages spoken in eastern
Afghanistan, northern
Pakistan and the Indian state of
Jammu and Kashmir.
The Dardic group has traditionally been defined as a sub-group of the
Indo-Aryan languages which experienced strong influence from the
Nuristani and
Iranian languages.
Nuristani, a group of languages spoken in northeast Afghanistan, has sometimes been included in Dardic, but is today generally regarded as an independent group, as one of the three sub-groups of Indo-Iranian.
The Norwegian Iranist
Georg Morgenstierne wrote that
Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although the Dardic
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.
Except for
Kashmiri, all of the Dardic languages are small minority languages which have not been sufficiently studied. In many cases they're spoken in areas difficult to access due to mountainous terrain and/or armed conflicts in the region. All of the languages (including Kashmiri) have been historically influenced by more prominent (non-Dardic) neighboring languages, which blurs their classification.
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