Tirahi
[aka Tirāhī, Dardu,]Classification: Indo-European
·dormant
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Tirāhī, Dardu |
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Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone |
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Language information by source
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Information from: “Endangered languages of the Middle East” (263-277) . Jonathan Owens (2007) , Matthias Brenzinger · Mouton de Gruyter
Information from: “Endangered languages of the Middle East” (263-277) . Jonathan Owens (2007) , Matthias Brenzinger · Mouton de Gruyter
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
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Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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100
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Ethnic population: Possibly 5,000
- MORE ON VITALITY
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Most have shifted to Southern Pashto
- PLACES
- Afghanistan;
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Southeast of Jalalabad, west of Khyber Pass, Nangarhar village
Information from: “Glottolog” .
Information from: “Dardestān ii. Language” . Edel'man, D.I. (1994)
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
The central subgroup is further subdivided into northern and southern groupings. The northern grouping includes Khowar (or Chitrali, Chitrari, Chatrori, Arniya) and Kalasha in the Chitral region. The southern grouping includes Tirahi, Gawar (or Gawar-bati, lit., “language of the Gawar people”), Katarkalai (or Wotapuri, referring to another dialect), Shumashti, Glangali (closely related Ningalami, reported in the literature but apparently no longer extant), and Pashai, a large group of extremely divergent dialects or closely related languages, in the southern part of Nūrestān and adjacent areas.
- PLACES
- Pakistan; Afghanistan; India
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Part of Nūrestān and adjacent areas along the Kabul river and its tributaries in the mountain region that encompasses northeastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and northwestern India
Information from: “Notes on Tirahi” (161-189) . Georg Morgenstierne (1934)
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Spoken in a few villages southeast of Jalalabad in Afghanistan