- Kanigurami
- Logar
Conflict, Displacement, and the Implications for Warmaro/Ormari Language
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
Domain Of Use 3
Used mainly in the home and/or with family, but remains the primary language of these domains for many community members.
Speakers
Location and Context
"The Burki tribe inhabits a densely populated city in the heart of South Waziristan — Kaniguram, which is 7000 feet above the sea level (Ahmed, 2010). A small percentage of non-Burkis (mostly Mehsud) also live in the upper
part of the city (upper Kaniguram)... The town [of Kaniguram], being the only place where the Ormari/Warmaro language is spoken, has preserved it against the dominant Pashto language of the region for centuries. But the displacement following the conflict dispersed the Kaniguram’s population to the settled districts of Pakistan, such as Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Peshawar, and Karachi (Oborne, 2014), where Pashto or Urdu serves as the dominant language in use."